The two arrested for their involvement in the murder of journalist Giorgos Karaivaz two years ago will attempt to refute what is attributed to them in the indictment drawn up against them with their apologies before the investigator.

The two brothers who are facing the charge of manslaughter, will today be taken to plead before the 30th Regular Investigator following the arrest warrant that brings them before the judicial authorities as perpetrators of the mafia operation organized to kill the journalist outside his house in Alimos on April 9, 2021.

According to the lawyer of the 40-year-old and his 48-year-old brother, Athanasia Stavris, the two defendants dispute the evidence cited by the police authorities about its principals. In her statement to a television station, the advocate described as “unconnected” what is recorded in the case file against her clients, stating that the two brothers are before the Justice with “logical leaps”. As Mrs. Stavri mentioned:

“The principals deny the accusation in any way. Let us say and clarify about the past of the two brothers that they do not have a criminal past in the sense of convictions. They have a clean criminal record.”

According to the evidence in the case file, which appears to describe the actions of other persons involved in the murder, the two defendants seem to have used ghost cell phones a few days before the murder, having put theirs on hold. These so-called “Pakistani phones” were never activated again after the assassination. At the same time, they are said to have taken measures to escape from the spot where the journalist was “gassed” and to have studied the spot particularly carefully.

The process is expected to last a long time as the defendants are expected to answer dozens of questions from the judicial officer after the allegations they will present.