The 2-year-old boy who was carried away with his parents by the 46-year-old driver on Wednesday was discharged from the pediatric surgery clinic of “Papageorgiou” hospital today..

According to MACEDONIA information, the child will be taken care of by his grandparents until further notice.

In the meantime, the 46-year-old driver took the road to prison, after his apology to the 3rd regular investigator of Thessaloniki.

The 46-year-old is prosecuted as a felony for “dangerous driving on the roads by a person driving a vehicle, although unable to do so safely, due to the consumption of alcohol, resulting in grievous bodily harm to three persons” (supplementary prosecution was brought for the minor child) , and for “consecutive negligent bodily harm” (misdemeanor).

Apologizing to the investigator, he allegedly admitted that he had drunk a glass of tsipouro during a meal that had preceded the triple abduction. He pointed out, according to information, that he had not developed speed and that the road at the point where he “lost” the car is “dangerous”.

Investigator and prosecutor unanimously decided that should be kept temporarily (he is expected to be sent to Larissa prisons), taking into account the history of the 46-year-old who in the past had been arrested five other times for driving under the influence of alcohol, among them when in 2020 he ran over and injured a 77-year-old woman in Kalamaria.

The sixth time he was caught driving after consuming alcohol was the morning of last Wednesday, September 11, on the Perias-Polygyrou provincial road, where he drove the family away. The two measurements to which he was submitted after the traffic accident showed that he had consumed alcohol above the permissible driving limit, namely 0.64 and 0.75 mg/l, respectively.

At the same time, and according to the latest information from sources at the “Papageorgiou” Hospital, the two parents (the 37-year-old man and the 34-year-old woman) are still being treated intubated in the ICU of that particular hospital. The condition of the 37-year-old is considered critical, while the condition of the 34-year-old woman, who underwent, in the last 24 hours, an operation to terminate her pregnancy and remove the fetus she was carrying in the fifth month (deemed necessary by the doctors due to negative heartbeats) is described as critical but stable fetus). Their two-year-old child is hospitalized in a simple bed at the Pediatric Surgery Clinic of the same hospital.