Two are in custody arrested Pakistanis after their confession to the investigator, for Terrorist network uncovered in Athens.

The two defendants, aged 27 and 29, apologized for forming and joining terrorist organizationcriminal offense.

The prosecutor’s office also opened a criminal case against an unknown person for leading a terrorist organization and inciting to join a terrorist organization.

“I’ll slaughter a goat and send you pictures”

Two Pakistanis are represented by a lawyer Iraklis Stavariswho exclusively told “K” about the case.

As he explained, the indictment and case materials are based solely on the history of communication of the three defendants, mainly through the WhatsApp and Viber applications, while the Anti-Terrorism Agency is also investigating the accounts they maintained on social networks. like Facebook and even Tik Tok.

According to the case file, the anti-terrorism investigation began after Email reached the agency saying that two of the three detainees named in the email were planning an attack on House Chabab on Aesopou street.

The first reports of investigative interest, according to EL.AS., were discovered in November 2022, when a Pakistani citizen, eludes capture and is in Iran, he asks his compatriot who lives and works in Zakynthos to send him photographs of the Jewish synagogue in Athens.

In the first messages, he does not reveal his exact plans to him, but asks him to visit and photograph the place from the outside, even sending him the exact coordinates so that he can locate the place. “i have a job for you– he allegedly wrote to him in one of the first messages.

A citizen of Pakistan, who worked as a farmer in Zakynthos and lived with his compatriots in a house in the Laganas region, managed to visit Athens during the Christmas season. He actually took photographs of a Jewish restaurant, which he sent to his interlocutor in Iran and returned to Zakynthos.

The latter allegedly revealed his real plans in January when the arrested Pakistani citizen returned from Laganas, where he was living in Athens.

According to Mr. Stavaris, some of the recorded conversations show that his chiefs object to the plan of attack, arguing that the area is densely populated and therefore it will be difficult to escape after the attack. A fugitive Pakistani citizen in Iran is reportedly asking his interlocutor to send him photos and videos of the attack as evidence.

Mr. Stavaris points out that there is a report in the case file in which a Pakistani prisoner appears in a message to the alleged “moral culprit” of the planned attack that instead of sending him pictures of the wounded, he will slaughter a goat and send him pictures of the animal’s blood.

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