By Makis Synodinos

The fear and terror of shopkeepers in Syntagma, Kaisariani, Pagrati, Byron and Zografou had become gang members who had made armed robberies…a profession.

Two foreigners, 39 and 30 years old, and a 60-year-old Greek fell into the lens of ELAS, while ELAS’s investigation revealed that they had been robbing the shops since mid-November 2023.

Having acquired pistols, they mainly entered mini-markets pretending to be police officers and then at the threat of pistols and bundles they immobilized the employees and took away money. For the most part, they chose for targets, stores – mini markets owned by people of Asian origin and to achieve their goal they did not hesitate to use violence.

The countdown to their arrest began after the burglary in a third-floor apartment of an apartment building in Kypseli, as the owner noticed the perpetrators through a security camera installed inside her apartment and called Immediate Action. Police officers who went to the scene, identified two of the three who, in their attempt to escape, descending from balcony to balcony, became trapped in the uncovered area of ​​the apartment building, while one of the perpetrators was injured falling from a great height and had to be transported to the General State Hospital of Athens G. Gennimatas where a guard is being treated with a fractured spine.