Even if the evidence is indisputable, the hooligans accused of the violent incidents that resulted in the death of police officer Giorgos Lyggeridis, outside the closed “Melina Merkouris gym” in Rentis, denied everything.

“I don’t know, I didn’t see, I didn’t hear».

This is allegedly the line of defense of the arrested before the investigator.

The 31-year-old “Kokos”, one of the so-called “big men”, who gave the orders and organized the attacks against the police officers, allegedly claimed that he does not participate in incidents due to family obligations.

“For the last two and a half years, I have not been able to watch my team as often as I used to, as I am the father of three minor children and my family obligations do not allow me to do so,” he said.

One of the defendants, trying to justify the fact that traces of gunpowder were found on his hands, reveals the conversation he had with the 18-year-old arrested who confessed that he fired the naval flare causing the fatal injury of the policeman Giorgos Lyggeridis.

“When G.N. entered in the stadium, after the incidents, we shook hands and he told me that he killed the policeman. Also, as I leaned on the bars, the gunpowder may have been transferred to my hands,” he argued.

Sticking to his alibi, the 28-year-old “Omle”, manager of a well-known trapper and leader of a western suburbs fan association, is reported to have cynically stated that he was offered to enter a witness protection program.

“They wanted to put me in a witness protection program and tell lies, like others are now telling about me. I can prove this with witnesses who beat them to force them to accuse me”

Another defendant who, according to the case file, had a leading role in the criminal organization, is trying to justify why he went to the stadium in a rented car on the night of the murderous attack.

“My child goes to speech therapy, my wife runs around the house, while my mother-in-law is a heart patient. I rented the car to serve my family. If something happened at night what would I do?’

As part of investigations into the activities of the criminal organization, five new arrest warrants may be issued.

Head of port 7

Any involvement is also denied by the leader of port 7 who is already in custody.

In response to the investigator’s question about why the witnesses point to him as the organizer of the violent riots, he reportedly said that… due to his institutional role, he seems to be disliked by some “and whoever is arrested, they also consider me an informer, because I am the one who he’s talking to the cops. Some want to take the blame off themselves and that’s why they’re naming me.”

In relation to the issue of accreditation that seems to have been granted to him by PAE Olympiacos, he is reported to have stated that “the official Olympiacos accepted the proposal of Thira 7 since I am not hot-blooded and have a clean criminal record”.

As for how he managed to escape from “Melina Merkouri”, he allegedly claimed that because he had the accreditation they let him pass.

“He had tear gas and they were upset. The police had taken over the incident and I thought I would be of no use there.”

Finally, he allegedly made an attempt to damage the credibility of the so-called protected witnesses by stating that their statements, much more so when they are also accused in the same case, have serious credibility problems.