A 19-year-old man was arrested for cutting cables on Metro Line 1 and is facing criminal charges.

According STASY sources, shortly before midnight on Saturday January 27, police officers of the “Ariadni” team, patrolling the Metro Line 1 network, spotted a man moving within the network, near the Heraklion electricity substation.

A pursuit of the man followed in adjacent streetswhich resulted in his introduction. The 19-year-old man’s arrest was turned into an arrest on Sunday, January 28. when his presence in the area of ​​the “Heraklion” Metro station was related to the cutting of cable ties, for which STASY informed ELAS.

The 19-year-old man, a resident of Agia Varvara, Atticaaccording to the same sources, on Monday, January 29, he was taken to the public prosecutor and sentenced to pre-trial detention for criminal acts. Based on article 374 of the criminal code and after the tightening of its framework, the distinguished case of removal of an object critical to the service of the operation or the safety of fixed track means of transport, punishable as a felony.