He was arrested in Patras the 89-year-old who carried out the armed attacks attacks to EFKA Kerameikos and the courts of Loukareos.
According to “K” information, the elderly man had traveled by taxi from Athens and was found in a hotel near the KTEL station, while a loaded 38-gauge gun was found in his possession.
When the 89-year-old arrived at the hotel, he sat for a while in the reception area. At that moment hotel employees, who were watching TV news about the bloody incident in Athens, recognized him and called the Police. Immediate Action police arrived at the hotel almost immediately, and proceeded to arrest him. He was taken to Patras Security, where he is being held.
He was hospitalized in a psychiatric facility in 2018
The man had been hospitalized in a psychiatric facility in 2018. That year, a court had ruled that the elderly man was not entitled to a pension for which he had submitted a relevant application. At the time, he had left two cases in front of the prosecutor’s office and was later diagnosed with a mental health illness.
When the first attack took place, a niece of the 89-year-old called the police and named him. Sources estimate that the man may have premeditated his plans.
The chronicle
Shortly after 10 in the morning, the 89-year-old entered the EFKA offices, wearing a dark-colored trench coat, in which he had hidden the rifle, and headed to the fourth floor of the building, towards the Registrar’s office.
There he took out the carbine and pointed at the employees. He even asked one employee to bend down and then shot another in the leg.
About an hour after the first incident, the 89-year-old arrived at the Magistrate’s Court, where he managed to enter the building by passing security without being noticed, carrying a sawed-off rifle.
After getting inside, he headed to an office where, according to witnesses, he opened fire. As reported by ERT, it does not seem to have targeted specific people, however shrapnel from the shots injured four people.
According to information, before leaving the old man threw letters in the area, saying: “In them you will find the reasons I did my act.”
