Three Greek investigative judges on Friday began questioning about ten people accused of the death of a young football fan of AEK Athens, reports AFP.

Michalis Katsouris, 29, died of bleeding after being stabbed in the arm during violent incidents between the ultras of Croatian club Dynamo Zagreb and AEK on Monday night outside the Greek club’s stadium in Nea Philadelphia, a suburb in western Athens.

The tragedy happened on the eve of the match of the Champions League qualifying tournament, postponed by UEFA until August 19.

About a hundred Croatian fans suspected of having ties to the Bad Blue Boys, the Dinamo Zagreb hooligans, as well as two Greeks, an Albanian, a Bosnian and an Austrian, were arrested on Tuesday and charged the next day with manslaughter and criminal conspiracy. organization, a source in the court reported.

According to the media, the questioning of the suspects should end on Sunday evening.

The death of Michalis Katsouris shocked Greece, where violence often accompanies football matches.

Dismissal from the police

Greece’s Civil Defense Minister Yannis Oikonomou has dismissed seven high-ranking officers from the Greek police following violent clashes between supporters of AEK Athens and Dinamo Zagreb, Proto Thema reports.

Oikonomu said that there will be other changes in the police because he believes that the entry of Croatian hooligans into Greece is an “unauthorized and unacceptable incident” and a “failure of the Greek police”.

According to news reports, Greek police were fully aware of a plan by Croatian hooligans to arrive in Athens despite a UEFA ban and carry out a deadly attack outside the AEK Stadium in Athens a day before the Champions League third preliminary round match between AEK and Dinamo Zagreb.

• The first of the documents states that “according to the information received from the above-mentioned source, with the usual degree of reliability, information that is constantly verified, a fairly large number (about 100) of organized fans of “Dynamo” will arrive in the country from the Zagreb team (Bad Blue Boys), a part of which will be accepted by the fans of the Panathinaikos team, with which they are brothers and maintain excellent connections and communication. Others will stay in various Airbnb accommodations, mostly near Oleksandra Boulevard.”
• The second document states that “according to the latest information received by our Service, the organized fans of the AEK team have been informed of the arrival of the fans of Dinamo Zagreb, which has caused excitement in their ranks and are now discussing their own actions. “.
• The third newsletter states that “taking into account the above and according to the latest information coming to our service from open sources, the organized fans of the AEK team call for the fans of the team to gather in the outer territory (horseshoe) of the OPAP. ARENA Stadium today, from 7:00 p.m. under the pretext of giving out season tickets.”

Croatia is washing its hands

And the Montenegrin authorities, as reported by the SKAI TV channel, sent a two-page document to the Greek police on Monday morning at 09:22, in which it is reported that about 120 young people, whom they classify as “risky fans”, crossed the road. on the Croatian border with a likely destination in Athens to watch the AEK-Dinamo Zagreb match. The document contains not only information and the number of people, but also the brands and registration numbers of the cars in which the hooligans were.

The Croatian authorities, for their part, claim that “Europol and Interpol informed Greece in advance about the Dinamo fans.” The Croatian police, however, show indifference to their own duties, claiming that “the local authorities had no legal grounds to stop the fans.” “Dynamo”, which were on their way to Athens, on the Croatian border.

A source in the Croatian Ministry of Internal Affairs says that the hooligans went to Greece in small groups so that they would not all arrive at the same border point at the same time. “There was no reason to prevent them from leaving the country,” says the Croatian interior ministry, explaining that anyone could have easily said they were going on a leisurely trip to the Balkans.

“Our police did everything possible – they sent information in time, on the basis of which the Greek police could prepare for the clashes between the fans that will follow,” sources from Zagreb also claim.

Despite a UEFA ban, between 100 and 120 Dinamo Zagreb fans arrived outside the AEK stadium on Monday night in an organized attack on AEK fans that left 29-year-old Michalis Katsouris dead and several others seriously injured.

Seven Romanians arrested for possession of weapons on the border between Greece and Bulgaria

Seven Romanian nationals, alleged supporters of a football club in Romania, were arrested on Thursday near the Greece-Bulgaria border for possession of weapons, while Greek police search for those responsible for the murder of a Greek fan, Agerpres reported, citing AFP. .

“Seven foreigners were arrested for violating the law on possession of weapons,” the Greek police said in a statement.

According to a police source, the detainees are “Romanians”, believed to be fans of the football club from their country, who intended to attend the match between the Greek team Olympiakos Piraeus and the Belgian club Genk in the third preliminary round of the Champions League on Thursday evening, near Athens