“Fire” is characterized by police circles the file that was formed for the criminal organization which was dismantled after the code-named sweep operation “Sword of Damocles” of EL.AS and concerns the murderous attack against the 31-year-old MAT police chief Giorgos Lyggeridis in Rentis in December 2023, but also the fan violence in general.

The voluminous file of 3,000 pages which “left” yesterday morning from GADA in plastic boxes is “tied” well and there can be no doubt about the role of the arrested, they say on Skai.gr police sources.

Explosions, offenses related to explosives, manslaughter, robbery, extortion, disturbing the peace, arson, dangerous bodily harm, theft, damage to foreign property are some of the charges attributed to the 67 arrested who passed the prosecutor’s door early in the morning.

The “Chiefs”, “deputy leaders” and “recruiters”, who are referred to by names or nicknames, as well as testimonies, videos, findings – evidence such as burnt clothes and dna identified on them, but mainly telephone communications that came into her hands EL.AS since the removal of telephone privacy they burn the arrested.

According to police sources, 87 searches were carried out in homes, vehicles and other places, as well as 10 physical searches with the assistance of representatives of the judicial authorities of Athens and Piraeus, in the residences of the arrested defendants as well as in the homes of defendants who escaped arrest, during which a number of T-shirts and other items belonging to a certain group as well as other groups, which apparently constitute “loot”, full-face hoods, knives, bats, iron globes, iron fists, flares, firecrackers, various digital persuasions, such as mobile phones, were found and confiscated. portable computers, storage media, quantities of narcotic substances as well as the total amount of 23,170 euros.

Yet found and confiscated air guns, stun guns and firearms as well as cartridges, in the homes of 9 accused. According to the same sources, the perpetrators they had formed an operationally structured organization with continuous criminal activity since at least 2019, with the purpose of committing felonies and misdemeanors against Police Forces and opposing fans. “Their action takes place mainly in Attica, but there are also cases where, on the occasion of matches outside Attica, they commit criminal acts in other cities of Greece, such as Volos and Ioannina.

The starting point of our Service’s investigations was the case of the attack by the members of the Criminal Organization of unknown perpetrators, with homicidal intent against a platoon of the Hellenic Police, resulting in the death of a Policeman,” states the ELAS communiqué.

Regarding the murderous attack against Lyggeridis in Rentis, police sources report that during the autopsy they also found a total of 28 persuasions were seized which were used as weapons in the attacks against the police forces, namely naval flares, hand flares, flare launchers, A.E.M. remnants. etc.

In addition, they were searched for, located and a total of 64 persuasions were seized, which concern clothing discarded by the perpetrators of the attacks, with the obvious purpose of making it difficult for the authorities to identify them. Finally, evidence that constitutes a violation of the Law on Addictive Substances was also found and confiscated. All confiscated convictions were sent to the relevant laboratories to be examined.

For the deconstruction of the criminal organization, an important role was played by the 3 “deep throats”, i.e. the statements of the three witnesses who, for understandable reasons, have been placed under protection status and according to police sources, provided crucial information for the development of the investigations which lasted 4 months.

The role of the “small”

A decisive role in the achievement of their goals was played by the so-called “small”, i.e. people usually aged between 16 and 24, who were used by the “big” to be able to have a numerical superiority when they carry out their attacks, according to with police sources who spoke to Skai.gr.

The “littles” in the said criminal organization are said to have participated in at least one criminal act, while their desire to rise in the esteem of the “bigs” made them particularly violent and always willing to participate in attacks against the Police or opposing fans. In fact, as a senior officer of ELAS says, “the presence of each of them, during the commission of the criminal acts, was the basis of the criminal activity of the organization, without which it would have been impossible”.

As Skai.gr wrote yesterday, the criminal organization also had “recruiters”.

The leading members of the Criminal Organization recruited the “little ones” and always had them on their side, giving them free entry into the stadium.

The “big ones” received invitations which they distributed to the “little ones” so that they could enter the stadium gates for free. In addition, they were given small “tips” when they were sent to run errands for them, such as buying them food or beers. The above, combined with the awe and respect that the “small” felt for the “big”, was enough for them to fully submit to their orders and be consistent, when called by the “big” to carry out their illegal activities.

Criminal prosecution for criminal organization and homicide against the 67 arrested

Serious felony and misdemeanor charges attributed to criminal prosecution brought by the public prosecutor against those who participated in the action of a criminal organization of fans of a sports teamwhose members are allegedly involved in dhomicidal attack with a naval flare against the police officer Giorgos Lyggeridis last December outside the closed stadium in Rentis.

After studying the voluminous file filed by the police authorities, the public prosecutor brought criminal proceedings concerning both the 67 arrested who were brought to the courts early in the morning as well as the persons included in the transfer and wanted to appear before the Justice. In total, according to the data in the case file, approximately 160 persons are involved in the case, of which a leading role in the management of the organization is attributed to five persons.

The prosecution concerns 12 felonies and a total of 28 charges while among the accused are 15 minors. Among the 67 arrested is one of the minors.

particularly the criminal prosecution concerns:

– Address of a criminal organization (targeting five people).

– Formation and membership of a criminal organization.

– Homicide during a sporting event.

– Moral complicity in homicide during a sporting event.

– Complicity in homicide during a sporting event

– Explosion resulting in the death of another during a sporting event.

– Moral complicity in the explosion that resulted in the death of another during a sporting event.

– Contributing to the explosion that resulted in the death of another during a sporting event.

– Manufacture of explosive devices for the purpose of illegally supplying organizations on the occasion of a sporting event.

– Ethical authorship in the manufacture of explosive and incendiary materials which may cause danger to a person on the occasion of a sporting event.

– Blackmail by threatening to damage another’s business by complicity during a sporting event.

– Robbery by accomplice and serial robbery with a sports background.

– Distinctive violence against employees who were in serious danger.

– Arson from which a common danger to foreign objects may arise during a sporting event.

– Disturbing the public peace during a sporting event.

– Damage to foreign property during a sporting event.

– Dangerous bodily harm against employees and non-employees.

– Violence against another during a sporting event.

– Possession of objects that can cause physical harm during a sporting event.

– Possession of flares and firecrackers during a sporting event.

– Possession of objects that can cause bodily harm.

– Theft by complicity.

– Illegal gun possession.

– Illegal carrying of weapons.

– Weapon usage by follow-up.

– Illegal possession of firecrackers.

– Supply possession of drugs.

Seven people from the criminal organization also have a violation of the drug law, a case that will be separated in terms of its criminal development.

Also seven other persons, with 3 of them arrested, are involved in drug trafficking without being involved in the criminal organization. An arrested person, the father of the person involved, will be tried in Autoforo.

The case will be handled by the 9th investigator with four female investigators who will help in his work, including a juvenile investigator and a drug investigator.