Investigations by the authorities into the causes and the perpetrator of yesterday’s murder of the 45-year-old, who was found dead in his car in Archontiki Rethymno, are ongoing.

The unfortunate man was in the driver’s seat while the perpetrator apparently approached him from the front and opened fire with a hunting rifle with the bullet breaking the windshield and then the shrapnel finding the 45-year-old, fatally injuring him.

He had to talk to his wife in two days

For two days now, the 45-year-old’s wife has had no sign of him. The last time she had seen him was two days ago at their house. He left and never came back.

After frantic searches, his wife finally found his lifeless body early this afternoon in a rural area in Archoniki.

She notified the authorities with police men, a medical examiner and an EKAB ambulance to rush to the scene.

His family had engaged the authorities for a vendetta

According to information from cretapost, the family of the 45-year-old was involved in a vendetta.

The feud had taken place in Crete about two decades ago, while as sources in cretapost report, the 45-year-old was not involved at all.

The vendetta of 16 years and 6 victims

The feud between two families and the involvement of a third began in 1994 and is attributed to personal reasons, but also to property disputes.

On May 23, 1994, Fotoula Mouzouraki, 53, was found raped and strangled in the village of Patima Apokoronou, Chania. Michalis Dikonimakis and another person were arrested for the murder, who were sentenced on December 6, 1997 to life imprisonment.

On August 16, 1994, 24-year-old Kostas Mouzourakis, son of Fotoula, was killed in a mountainous area of ​​Kournas Apokoronou, and this murder was attributed to Vangelis Selianakis, with whom the victim seems to have had property disputes. Some time later, Vangelis Selianakis tried to leave for Canada, but was arrested. He escaped on July 20, 1996 together with other people from the prisons of Halicarnassus and in his attempt to escape he shot police officers.

On November 10, 1994, 26-year-old Yiannis Mouzourakis and two other people murdered Manolis Dikonimakis, 54 years old, whose son had killed Fotoula Mouzourakis.

On December 13, 1994, an unknown person drove away with his car the 28-year-old Sifi Dikonimakis, brother of the perpetrator of the murder of Fotini Mouzourakis. The victim of the attack had a carbine with him which went off and killed him.

On September 23, 1995, Vangelis Selianakis was murdered with a hunting carbine in an ambush set up by strangers on the provincial road of Argyroupolis, Rethymno, Episkopi.

Another murder was that of Yiannis Mouzourakis (he had murdered M. Dikonimakis) on January 5, 1999, who was hit by bullets while walking on George Kennedy Street in Peristeri. The Police attributed this murder to fugitive Vangelis Selianakis. According to the police, the attacker fired with a Kalashnikov from a distance of 40 meters and fired about 20 bullets.

On January 3, 2011, 53-year-old Vangelis Selianakis was found dead in the village of Archontiki in Rethymnon.