In addition to the 50-year-old butcher, the Police call as a witness another “key” person for the disappearance of 31-year-old Babis in Messolonghi.

This is a friend of the missing person whom Babis was supposed to meet to go hunting, as at least the 50-year-old claimed.

Information states that the new witness claimed that: “We had not arranged to meet.”

Babis, according to his sister, had given the 50-year-old a deadline to return the amount of 17,000 euros he owed him until Sunday. This is what he had mentioned to his mother two days before he disappeared.

“I think something bad has happened because he would have contacted at least my mother. I believe that he is not alive,” said the missing man’s sister.

The last person to see him is the 50-year-old butcher who claims he doesn’t know anything and doesn’t remember much

He also allegedly deleted calls and messages from his mobile phone.

According to the 31-year-old’s sister, the 50-year-old falls into contradictions: “That day, Babis called him to come pick him up. My brother said to his best friend that I will go hunting with him. He claims that Babis told him ‘take me there so that someone else can pick me up'”.

According to what the 50-year-old told the police, Babis asked him to drop him off at a point at an intersection on the Antirrio – Ioannina highway, which is very close to his house.

Forensic laboratories will provide answers

On Monday, the 50-year-old man was brought to justice for the knife he had in his possession, but the trial was postponed until today, Tuesday. That means he spent another night in security.

The police are waiting for answers from the forensic laboratories about his mobile phone, his clothes and his car, while at the same time an examination for gunpowder has been carried out.