The new evidence at their disposal has given a new twist to ELAS’ investigations into the identification of the perpetrator who threw the naval flare at the 31-year-old police officer.

From the statements so far of the police officers who were present during the attack and from the evidence they have collected so far, they are looking for the hooligans, as well as the organizers of the incidents in the closed of Rentis, while the volleyball match between Olympiakos and Panathinaikos was taking place.

The role of the two people off the field

According to information from SKAI, the police officers stated in their statements that they received three naval flares, from three different people. At the same time, the police are investigating the presence of two people who were outside the stadium and who allegedly gave directions and instructions to the group of hooligans, which attacked the police forces.

The two unknowns allegedly organized the attack and left the stadium immediately after it took place. As such, he was not among the 424 brought in by the police for examination.
Police are examining cellphone video, as well as other evidence, that may shed light on what happened that night, which resulted in the serious injury of the 31-year-old police officer, who is in critical condition at Nice General Hospital.

The items that EL.AS has in its hands

At the same time, ELAS has in its hands knives, flares and other “munitions of war” that it collected during the inspection of Rentis, after the incidents.

Police have released findings from the stadium, which prove the attack on the police force was premeditated.

With the above findings that the Authorities have at their disposal and from the DNA samples and fingerprints that they have at their disposal from those brought in, they will try to connect some persons to the objects. At the same time, in the grounds of the stadium, burnt clothes were found that the perpetrators tried to burn in the toilets of the stadium to erase their traces, remnants of improvised mechanisms, flares, firecrackers and other metal objects that have been sent to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations for analysis.

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The shocking testimony of a colleague of the 31-year-old police officer

The description of a colleague of the 31-year-old about the dramatic hours I spent from the moment the 31-year-old was injured until he was taken to the hospital is also shocking. As he characteristically said speaking to ERT, “the operation of transporting him to the hospital took place in war conditions”.

“First aid was provided by platoon colleagues. He was tourniqueted in the middle of battle. The attacks were incessant, ferocious with homicidal intent. One of his many flares, of the naval type, found its target and wounded the colleague in the left thigh. He backed up a few yards and fell to the road, the naval flare burning at his leg. Two of the men offered him first aid and an ambulance station was called to come to the scene. The ambulance came quickly and he was taken to the General State Hospital of Nice,” said the police officer. As he mentions, countless Molotov cocktails and flares were falling around them.

“A platoon policeman tried to remove the burning flare from his leg but was unsuccessful as the gloves he was wearing were burnt. We tried to put it out with fire extinguishers but it wouldn’t go out, as that is also the role of the naval flare, to burn under water. The fellow didn’t immediately lose consciousness, but he was in excruciating pain. Then he lost a lot of blood and his blood pressure dropped. When the ED took him in, he was in a semi-conscious state, due to blood loss. He was very unlucky. The naval flare flashed on the pavement and had an upward course. It passed between his shield and his gear, and impaled himself in the thigh. The attacks were very fierce. Ten naval flares with fuze tubes must have fallen, and innumerable explosive devices.’

The police officer went on to describe that his colleagues’ efforts to help the 31-year-old were unfolding in warlike conditions. “They were throwing bottles with flammable liquid and had attached coils of dynamite to them. If you look at the visual material circulating on the internet, you can see some mushrooms with flames reaching 3 to 4 meters. The episodes lasted ten to fifteen minutes. My colleague was injured after the first five minutes, and after we had been heavily attacked. They exited the stadium and proceeded to attack the police forces. The tourniquet performed by his colleagues, as the doctors said, saved his life and gave him the right to fight for his life.”

They “locked” measures for fan violence

At the same time, at the inter-ministerial meeting held yesterday Saturday at the Maximos Palace, with the participation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the measures expected to be taken by the government – in addition to the previous ones – to limit or even suppress fan violence.

The announcements are expected to be made by the government representative on Monday morning, while the government is also in an “open line” with UEFA, in order to have a substantial cooperation and to take the most effective measures, based on the experience of its agents football.

The moves that will be made are being studied very carefully and it is not excluded that the measures will be implemented in stages, i.e. initially the empty platforms and then the interruption of the championships.