Unknown – until today – the dialogue between the criminals before manifesting murderous attack on Alkis Campanos– reported a friend of a 19-year-old teenager who was present at this incident and managed to leave the scene unharmed.

According to what a 20-year-old man testified as a witness at a trial held at the Mixed Jury Trial in Thessaloniki, when Alka’s group answered the question “what group do you belong to”, one of the defendants allegedly said:it’s not them, let’s go,” and subsequently the co-defendant told him the phrase “to … us, let’s go.”

This particular witness, sixth on the list, also gave this dialogue to the police when he gave his first testimony just three hours after murderous, while he was the only one of the victims testified to this. Answering questions from the defense, the same witness noted that the perpetrators “did not intend to kill, but certainly wanted to cause harm.”

Describing his perspective on the attack, the 20-year-old student said: “I noticed that 5-6 people were coming towards us. I saw them holding a knife and a crowbar. I knew that something had to happen. One caught me and inflicted several blows, but I covered myself with my hands. After a few seconds, he let me go, I don’t know why, and I managed to get away towards Plastira Street.”

As he noted, he learned about Alka’s death in the hospital, because before that he thought that he had run away. Today’s court session ended with his testimony (preceded by the testimony of another friend of Alkis among the victims of the brutal attack), and on Thursday (September 2) the trial will be repeated with the questioning of police witnesses.

Source: RES-IPE