The 29-year-old accused of the brutal murder of the 64-year-old, in Menemeni, Thessaloniki, was referred to the 7th regular investigator of Thessaloniki.

The public prosecutor brought criminal charges against him for manslaughter, illegal carrying of weapons and use of a knife, while she referred him to the investigating officer from whom he took deadline for next Tuesday.

Until he apologizes and decides on his criminal treatment, he remains in custody.

In front of the public prosecutor it is alleged that he confessed to the crime, but without going into details. During preliminary investigation, he testified that he committed his act because the victim sexually assaulted him.

The 64-year-old brought multiple stabbings and blows to the face and head, according to the forensic findings so far.

A knife was found stuck in the victim’s groin, and two more in the mattress of his bed. With the dead man’s blood, the perpetrator appears to have written on the wall of the room the phrase “Paederasti -1”.

Immediately after his heinous act, he took the victim’s motorbike and handed himself over to the Police, where he revealed the crime. “He approached me and asked me to do some work for him at his house” he allegedly claimed to the police officers of the Crimes Against Life Department, describing his acquaintance with the 64-year-old and the reason he followed him yesterday morning, to his apartment on Kazantzakis Street.

The false allegation of double murder

Just 24 hours before committing the murder, the 29-year-old, who had recently been released from prison for theft and drugs, presented himself at a police station in Thessaloniki, where he testified – falsely as it turned out – that he murdered two foreigners who tried to rob him. He claimed that he threw their bodies into the French River.

For this allegation, which was not confirmed, a case file was filed by the Police for a false complaint, an act for which he was sentenced, last Tuesday, by the Three-member Misdemeanor Court of Thessaloniki, to 8 months in prison, with a 3-year suspension. His sister, in her statements, stated that she filed this complaint because she wanted to return to prison in order to detox. He also noted that the 29-year-old is facing psychological problems.