19-year-old Alkis died from a combination of injuries – They knew what those who hit him did, the medical examiner tells SKAI

The Medical Examiner and Director of the Forensic Medicine and Toxicology Laboratory of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Lida-Kalliopi Kovatsi, spoke to SKAI about the forensic examination performed on 19-year-old Alkis.

Regarding the cause of death of the 19-year-old, Ms. Kovatsi said that “the child died from the combination of injuries caused to him in the lower extremities, together with the craniocerebral injuries he suffered. It was the combination of these two that brought about the final result. In no case are we talking about a trauma. “We are talking about many different blows.”

As he said, there was no room for his rescue, as he ended up too soon.

As for whether the blows were targeted, he stressed that “it is not easy to kill a young man, with a height of 1.90, you need to know what you are doing. “My scientific view is that these are targeted strikes by people who knew they would achieve the desired result.”

In fact, the examination revealed many defensive injuries. “The child resisted, tried to defend himself. “He was trying to protect vulnerable parts of the body, such as the head.”

Finally, for the escalation of violence in Thessaloniki, Ms. Kovatsi referred to a similar incident that occurred the same week as the murder of Alkis.

“There was another equally worrying incident that week,” he said. Specifically, a 14-year-old boy was injured by a group of people who chased him.

As the professor said, “we had no worse than being rescued by the hotel staff, outside of which they were beating him. This is pure luck. They asked him what team he was. “They had the child down and beat him.”

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