A 16-year-old gypsy was shot in the head and is in critical condition after surgery. As we reported earlier, the teenager refueled in the amount of 20 euros and left the gas station without paying the bill. During the ensuing police chase he was hit in the head.
According to media reports, the teenager drove up to a gas station in the suburbs of Thessaloniki at one in the afternoon on Monday and, having refueled, left without paying. A complaint was immediately filed with the police and the car was spotted by a patrol car, media reported, adding that “a chase began and the driver did not stop despite repeated signals from the police patrol.”
According to preliminary information, the teenager had a gun, and he tried to ram a patrol car. According to a police statement released on Monday afternoon, the teenager tried to ram a police motorcycle and endangered police officers. “The police pursued the driver and, as he was maneuvering, he was shot in the head from behind,” locals said. mass media.
The chase ended when the young man’s car crashed into a wall. He was immediately taken to the Hippocrates Hospital, where he underwent surgery and the doctors removed the bullet from the back of his head. His condition is considered extremely critical and he remains intubated in the intensive care unit. “Human life has value and is not measured in any amount,” government spokesman Yiannis Ikonomou commented on the bloody persecution when asked about it during a briefing by political editors.
Angry family and friends
While there seems to still be some confusion about what actually happened, angry relatives and friends of the teen have gathered outside the hospital demanding punishment for the culprit. His relatives said that there was no chase at the time reported by the police, and are indignantly perplexed: “What’s wrong with him not paying? Did they have to kill him for that?
The family’s lawyer told the media that the bullet damaged the part of the brain responsible for the functioning of the main organs. Advocate Theophilos Alexopoulos stated that the victim did not do anything that could endanger the lives of the officers, and spoke of the “murder”, adding that the shot had been fired directly into the back of his head. The victim is the father of a one-year-old child, relatives of the victim said.
Police officer who shot young man arrested
The detained police officer is in the custody of the prosecutor’s office and is expected to appear in court on Tuesday (12.062022). The DIAS police officer was found hours after the bloody chase as an investigation revealed that he was the one who fired the service weapon to stop the perpetrator fleeing the scene. The officer has been charged with attempted manslaughter, state broadcaster ERT reported.
Greek police statement on the incident:
Today (05-12-2022) at about 13.00, a young local resident, a driver of a private truck, drove into a gas station on N. Monastiriou street, where he was filled with diesel fuel, and he left without paying for it, according to a complaint from a worker who immediately reported this to the police ΔΙ.ΑΣ.located next to the gas station. The police officers rushed in the direction in which the aforementioned car fled and reported this to the Emergency Call Centre.
The car followed, using light and sound signals, making constant dangerous maneuvers for other road users, and in violation of the rules headed towards the Dyawata area. He tried to ram the group’s motorcycle head-on ΔΙ.ΑΣ., putting the policemen’s lives in immediate danger by again ignoring their orders. In view of the imminent danger, the police officers used their weapons (firing two shots) in an attempt to immobilize the vehicle, causing the driver to lose control, crash into a wall and be taken to an emergency hospital with severe injuries. The preliminary investigation is being carried out by the Department for Combating Crimes Against Life of the Thessaloniki Security Directorate.
Meanwhile, anarchists in Thessaloniki are organizing a protest in Kamara at 19:00 on Monday under the slogan “Roma lives matter”.
Reforms?
In November 2021, DIAS police shot and killed an 18-year-old Romani boy who stole a car in the Peram suburb of Piraeus. Immediately after the fatal shooting following the chase, Minister for Citizens’ Protection Takis Theodoriakos announced on a number of measures and updates aimed at improving the efficiency of the rapid response units, especially the DIAS motorcycle police units, as well as in the work of the Control Center.
Tomorrow, December 6, is the anniversary of the death of the 14-year-old Alexander Grigoropoulos, a teenager who died from a bullet fired by a police officer into the air when young people threw stones at law enforcement officers. The bullet ricocheted off a concrete beam above the policeman’s head and hit the teenager’s head. His death provoked two weeks of protests across the country, hundreds of arsons, pogroms in Athens and other Greek cities. Every year, on the anniversary of his assassination, youth demonstrations are held across the country, which end in pogroms and arson.
Since 2008, the actions carried out by anarchists to commemorate the death of a teenager are considered the strongest. In terms of the number of participants and mass character, they surpass even the ever-memorable November 17which this year went surprisingly smoothly.
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