The statements of the two police officers who initially rushed to the Moira Health Center, following a relevant order from the duty officer of the Phaistos Police Department, for the generalized …conflict between members of the two familiesafter the first episode outside an olive mill on the Moira-Galia road in which a 19-year-old man was involved on the one hand, the 54-year-old father and his 25-year-old son, on the other.

Characteristic of the tension is that even the 19-year-old injured person who was on the stretcher and was taken to the EKAB ambulance in order to be transported from the Health Center to the Venizelio Hospitalwhen he became aware of the fight, jumped to his feet and got involved again, thus aggravating his condition.

The two policemen, however, needed them since they were initially alone and were struggling to separate the members of the two families, with the result that even they were not spared from a few “bites” but also from some throws with pepper spray.

They arrived at the Health Center about ten minutes after 1:00 p.m. on August 28, when they found that about 15 people, relatives and friends of the 19-year-old wounded man, were already there.. They had barely had time to ask what had happened while the young man was being carried on a stretcher to the ambulance. Just then, as described, two passenger cars carrying members of the other family arrived outside the Health Center at high speed.

The police officers describe that as soon as the 19-year-old’s relatives saw the others, they became enraged and moved threateningly towards them. They then got out of the cars, holding metal objects in their hands and a fight ensued.

The two uniformed men stepped in to separate them, but the situation was difficult. Punches and kicks were thrown from both sides and not only that… According to information from Cretalive, the action of a 22-year-old defendant who was holding two hammers in his hands with which he was hitting members of the other family is described. A policeman managed to wrestle the hammers from him and then allegedly used pepper spray even at him. With superhuman efforts and with the help of third parties until reinforcements arrived, the two policemen managed to isolate the most “warm-blooded” for a while.

What the video shows for the first episode on the road

As for the first episode in the street, there is video material that has recorded the scene between the 19-year-old on the one hand, the 25-year-old and his father on the other.

The time is just before 12 noon and the two young men are recorded arguing and shaking hands, sometimes standing, sometimes lying on the ground, outside the main gate of the olive mill. According to police and a review of the video footage, the 25-year-old is seen while still standing holding an unknown object in his hand and hitting the 19-year-old. Two minutes later, the 25-year-old’s father appears at the scene with a large engine, parking the vehicle at the entrance of the oil mill and moving towards the two people who were lying on the ground. According to the Police, he himself was involved in the fight. According to information, the 25-year-old is described as getting up, exploiting, as it is estimated, the help of his father, and repeatedly hitting the 19-year-old with an unknown object, who remains lying on the ground.

After two or three minutes, passing drivers stop their vehicles and rush to distinguish them. As is already known, the trial of the case was postponed to September 6. Until then, the following restrictive conditions were imposed on six of the eight defendants in total: the prohibition of approaching each other, the daily appearance at the Police Department and in fact with the condition that both appear in the morning hours and the afternoon hours so as not to coincide and cause a new episode .