One police mistake follows another in the highly acclaimed case of Croatian hooligan.

According to “Kathimerini” information, over a period of five days, Security police officers revoked the identification of a suspect, pursuant to which an arrest warrant had been issued and executed.

The suspect was initially attributed by the police to the role of the organizer of the group of hooligans before he was finally released without restrictive conditions. In the meantime, in the next 24 hours the EDE for the handling of EL.AS will be completed. in the case resulting in the fatal injury of Michalis Katsouris, outside the AEK stadium.

On August 15, eight days after the hooligans of Dinamo Zagreb and Panathinaikos clashed with AEK fans, the competent Sub-Directorate for Combating Violence in Sports Venues (YAVAX) submitted to the investigator a supplementary report analyzing the videos from the security cameras operating around the perimeter of the AEK stadium. In that particular document, the police noted that the person seen coordinating the group of hooligans before they moved towards the AEK fans (wearing a helmet and holding a light-colored bat) resembled a 43-year-old organized Panathinaikos fan.

The posts
The recognition of EL.AS. it was based on a review of the videos as well as social media posts by a person with the username ‘Eugenia Milito’. In these posts, it was mentioned that the 43-year-old had organized the incidents as well as that he was the moral perpetrator for the death of Michalis Katsouris.

Based on the document, the investigator eissued a warrant against the 43-year-old which was executed three days later, on the morning of August 18. He was brought before the public prosecutor, who prosecuted him and ordered him to apologize to the investigator on August 22nd.

In the twenty-four hours that followed, however, and without the developments being publicized, the facts were reversed. The bills with username “Eugenia Milito” was fake.

In addition, on August 20, a YAVAH police officer gave a witness statement (incorporated into the case file) overturning what the same service of EL.AS. he had supported some twenty-four hours earlier.

He specifically testified that after a better review of the video material, he and his colleagues concluded that the 43-year-old does not resemble the person who was shown in the videos organizing the gang of hooligans shortly before the attack.

He even went a step further, testifying that the helmeted organizer was a different person from the group of more than 100 remanded in custody for the case.

Having learned of the second supplementary testimony of the YAVAH police officers, the prosecutor and the investigator released the 43-year-old man after his confession, disagreeing only on whether he would be required to report to the police station of his place of residence. The solution was given on September 4 by the judicial council, deciding that the 43-year-old should not be placed under any restrictive conditions at all.

The above came to be added to the chain of mistakes and misdemeanors of EL.AS. in the case, which resulted in the 150 hooligans of the Bad Blue Boys crossing Greece unmolested even though the Croatian and Montenegrin authorities had warned in time about the descent of die-hard Dinamo Zagreb fans. An inquest was ordered for the case, which was completed just yesterday.