Two brothers accused of involvement in the murder of a journalist were taken into custody Giorgos Karaivaz.

The 40-year-old and the 48-year-old apologized yesterday to the 30th full-time investigator for first-degree murder charge. On an arrest warrant, they appeared before the judicial authorities as guilty of an operation organized to execute a journalist near his home in Alimos on April 9, 2021.

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 “stopping” (not deactivating) the mobile phones of the two suspects for about two hours, during which time George Karaivaz was killed.

On the other hand, according to the lawyers of the 40-year-old man and his 48-year-old brother Athanasius Stavris and Eutihis Aligizakis, the two defendants dispute the evidence provided by the police.

In particular, the legal representatives of the two detainees claim that the white van of the cleaning company was found in the Alimos area to distribute flyers. As evidence supporting the position of the defense, they cite the diary of a 48-year-old man, which was seized on April 10, when he was taken to the Security Service.

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 claim to demonstrate that the white van did not play a supporting role in the murder and that one of the executioners never got into it, as the police assume.