Admitting that he managed the crucial blow to the femoral artery of Alkis Kampanos and providing full cover to his co-accused for their participation in the murderous attack, the 2nd of the 12 defendants in the trial for the murder of the 19-year-old, during his plea that began the morning in the Hall of the Mixed Jury Court of Thessaloniki, he took the crime “on himself”, without however seeming to convince the prosecutor of the seat.

All the previous time there was a rumor that the 21-year-old accused –the last one who, according to the videos of the case file, left the scene of the killer and the only one who was called at the interrogation stage to give a supplementary apology to the investigator Thessaloniki– he would confess that he hit the undead Elki.

Indeed, when he took the court stand to apologize he took responsibility for hitting the victim’s leg and for the first time any of the persons involved admitted to having physical contact with the young student.

Facing all this burden inside the prisons I want and must ask a huge apology to Alki’s family. Time doesn’t turn back unfortunately, I wish I was in Alki’s place. I’m the one who hit him in the leg. It was a fleeting shadow that I don’t remember well […] I am sure, convinced that it was done by me”, he said, beginning his apology. He decided, as he mentioned, to proceed with this admission by following the testimonies of the medical examiners throughout the previous period, while he also characterized it as his obligation to Alki’s parents, because “I want them to know the truth“, as he said.

He added that when he learned that “left” Alkis was shocked.

The kitchen knife, the “thug”, the unknown informant

Referring to the decision to move to Harilaou, he said that “we all decided it together”. It was intended “to find followers of Mars”.

“We wanted to “thrash”, to curse, to hit, but in no case did we seek what happened”, he noted, identifying himself as a fan of PAOK. He himself, according to what he said, took a kitchen knife with a wooden handle and a blade length of 10-12 cm, which did not have “teeth”, as he characteristically stated, from the association of fans of Old Patras Germanou (starting point of the 12 accused).

He then described what happened at the scene of the murder, where, according to what he said, they ended up when they were alerted by someone “we sent” (non-accused), whom he did not want to name. “Arriving at the scene, I got out of the car first, behind us was the second vehicle, I didn’t see the third one because it turned left. I know for sure that the 4th accused was with me. We asked them: “what team are you?”, they answered “Ares…”. I went up the stairs (of the building), I turned around for a moment, I didn’t see anyone else. Before I could ask, I was hit by a helmet.”

“That’s how I hit Alki”

He himself, according to what he apologized for, claimed that everything happened at the beginning of the episode. After “skulls” which received, struck “two or three times in the leg, with the knife, the friend of Alkis, who went to escape”.

“At that time I was hit with a stick by someone who was on the steps”he added.

Regarding the hit on Alki, he said that he managed to do it when the 19-year-old also went to escape.

“I wasn’t pointing anywhere. When he went to jump the wall he was hit. I caught up and saw the blood. I didn’t know what had happened, that the situation was so serious”write down.

Revoking what he had said inquiringly in his two apologies and answering many times, with the phrase “I do not know”took out of “frame” the other defendants.

In fact, when the president of the court, addressing the accused, remarked that “you describe as if it were only you”, he replied: “I didn’t see what the others were doing. I heard a rumble, a commotion, I don’t remember exactly. At that moment there was chaos, panic.”

Prosecutor: “I don’t believe you”

Taking her “baton”, the district attorney showed that she was not convinced by what the young defendant said. “I can’t believe you because they negate everything you had said,” he pointed out, while at another point, commenting on his previous investigative apologies, he noted: “We have three truths, which of them should we believe?” Referring to the statements of witnesses – medical examiners that the blow to the femoral artery seems to be compatible with an “ice pick or screwdriver”, the prosecutor asked him if he is sure that the weapon used was “the knife without teeth”.

“I’ve discussed all the options, I’m sure”he replied and added that he threw it into the sewer after the crime.