Two brothers, who were arrested on Friday for participating in the action, will appear before the investigator today. assassination of journalist Giorgos Karaivaz in April 2021 near his home in Alimos. Through their lawyers, Eftikhis Aligizakis and Athanasias Stavris, they deny the charges attributed to them, as is expected of them today during apology their.

According to court documents, as an aggravating circumstance GREEK POLICE. traffic on the day of the murder and the presence of a white van belonging to a cleaning company near the house of a journalist, their interests. The second element is the “disconnection” (not deactivation) of the mobile phones of the two suspects for approximately two hours, during which Qaraivaz was killed. The legal representatives of the two detainees claim that a white cleaning van was found in Alimos district to distribute promotional brochures. As an element reinforcing their defensive position, they refer to the diary of a 48-year-old man, which was seized on 10 April when he was taken to the Security Service.

Bike

The defendants also dispute that the single-rider scooter, captured on a security camera minutes after the murder, is identical to the two-wheeled vehicle in which the two killers fled the journalist’s home. They make this statement to demonstrate that the white van did not play a supporting role in the murder and that one of the killers never got into it, as the police suspect.

“The above two vehicles, i.e. BEVERLY, used by the perpetrators of the murder, as well as the van, were seen by CCTV cameras in the area on the day of the murder, as well as the day before,” the case file says. .

EL.AS officers. and officials of the Ministry of Citizens’ Protection, who know the case perfectly, ask questions about the outcome of the criminal case.

With regard to mobile phones, the lawyers of the defendants note that the cessation of their active work for a period of about two hours is accidental. They also say the two brothers used several other phone connections, which the police chose not to investigate. The term “idle” indicates that device users did not send messages, make calls, consume data, etc.

Official court documents quoted verbatim: “Telephone connections … indicate a cessation of active activity at the time of Karaiwaz’s assassination.”

However, the employees of EL.AS. and officials of the Ministry of Citizens’ Protection, who know the case perfectly, ask questions about the outcome of the criminal case. They acknowledge that the two-year investigation by the Homicide Investigation Department provided a clue to the identity of those involved in this case. However, they argue that evidence can be further supported by physical surveillance of suspects and the use of technical means. And they note that the decision to file a case some days ago was made at the political level and is not subject to purely police criteria. It is worth noting that the 40-year-old detainee was summoned between October and November 2022 to Attica Security in the context of targeted actions by EL.AS. He participated in an informal conversation with a high-ranking officer of the corps, the information of which stated that the purpose of his summoning to the 10th floor of the GADA was not so much to collect information, but rather the efforts of EL.AS. send a message that he is closely following the developments in the world of the Greek mafia. Several other people were invited to participate in such discussions, for whom there was information that they were related to the night area.

Firearms license

It is noteworthy in the case that during the investigation, namely in 2022, EL.AS. proceeded to renew the license to carry a gun for a 50-year-old man identified in court documents as a member of the group behind the assassination plan for journalist Giorgos Karaivaz.