The police investigation is trying to shed light on the circumstances of the death of 33-year-old Manolis Kritsotakis.

The 33-year-old met a horrible death on the night of the last Sunday of Halloweenwhen after the carnival in Agios Nikolaos and while having fun with his friends, he tried to set off a naval flarewhich however exploded on his body.

According to his information Creta24, The 33-year-old man was on the pedestrian street of October 28 along with seven of his friends and his partner. With two of them, his peers, with whom he had even been together since school, they began to take turns setting off naval flares.

According to the testimonies of people who were on the pedestrian street, the young people had already detonated several, when the 33-year-old Manolis tried to “light up” one more time, but without success. According to witnesses, it was then that he placed the flare on his stomach in an attempt to see what was happening. The dangerous explosive detonated, the deafening noise being heard quite a distance away.

Characteristic is the fact that some of his friends, who were next to him at the time of the explosion, initially thought that they themselves had been hit. In seconds they realized that the young man was bleeding. They called for help.

The scenes that unfolded were tragic. His partner and another girl from the group who at that moment had moved away from the scene ran to see what was happening. 33-year-old Manolis was bleeding but conscious. A doctor and an apothecary who were nearby had rushed to help him. They were trying to use gauze to close the wound to stop the bleeding.

According to reports parts of the flare were stuck inside the 33-year-old’s abdomen. The ambulance arrived a few minutes after the explosion, Manolis was taken to the hospital, where unfortunately he did not manage to survive.

His two friends were arrested, they were taken to the public prosecutor yesterday who prosecuted them for possession and use of flares and flares. A trial was set and they were released.

According to police sources, one of the two friends of 33-year-old Manolis was the one who had procured the flares. He handed over to the authorities the rest of the batch, which was found to contain expired flares. This even makes the police believe that the young man got them from a fisherman.

A preliminary investigation was ordered into the case of the 33-year-old’s deathwhile today the result of the necropsy on his body is expected.