A large police operation in Thessaloniki is under way to identify the armed officers who shot against EYP officials on Tuesday afternoon in Thermi as part of an investigation into Turkish organized crime.

So far the officers of the Organized Crime Officer of Northern Greece have proceeded to 5 arrests all of Turkish citizenship for drug possession and In a homosexual of their in Komotini, in which cartridges were found. This man is, is roommate of one of the perpetrators searched.

Video from the car of Turkish mafia

It all happened when three Turks who were on a silver jeep and who were under surveillance perceived it and stopped the vehicle in which they were supposedly gasoline at a station with one of them opening fire on the EYP car, fortunately without injury. According to police sources, it’s about Members of the Criminal Organization “Daltons”involved in a multitude of homicides and drug trafficking.

The unprecedented incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon in Tagarades area and has sounded an alarm at the National Intelligence Service and the Greek Police

What do we know about the arrested

Both the man arrested in Komotini and his roommate, the owner of the jeep, who is being sought has been concerned with the authorities in the past with issues related to Illegal trafficking of immigrants. It is reported that both have come from areas around Constantinople but have found refuge in Muslim districts, members of the Thrace minority in recent months. These people had been targeted by the police because they are suspected of trafficking in immigrants.

It is characteristic that a few weeks ago Security placed a girl in his vehicle A particular person, however, had the know -how to remove him. His roommate has also been concerned with the authorities.

As for the other five Turkish nationals arrested, they had been targeted both for their origin and because they wanted to participate in some of the networks of the movement of illegal immigrants.

How did the incident noted

A closed -circuit camera has recorded the silver jeep of the three Turkish mobsters, while the car and a motorcycle of EYP executives are watching it. In total, four agents of the service participated in the monitoring operation, with two cars and two engines alternating during the monitoring to not be noticed.

As soon as the three gunmen realized that they were watching, they stopped at a gas station in Thermi. One EYP engine that followed continued to avoid targeting while the vehicle on which the EYP official was on board stopped 400 meters before the gas station. Then the person who was in the passenger in the jeep began moving towards the EYP car and even made a move that testified that he was preparing to take a gun. Immediately, the EYP executive put forward and bowed while at the same time accepting the bullets. Then the three suspects boarded the jeep turned around and left in the opposite direction.

It is noted that in the last two years EYP is watching groups of Turkish Organized Crime After a series of homicides that have been made to each other in Greece.

The Daltons gang

The three Turks who opened fire belong to Gang “Daltons” which he has set up by a Turk named Boris Bogiun who is described as the leader of the Mafia. His team is involved in drugs, weapons and immigrants. In May 2024 he was arrested for the second time in Italy where he had fled. Reports even want Turkish President himself, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had asked Italy Prime Minister George Meloni his publication.

The tangle, however, began to unfold, according to the report, after The massacre noted in Loutsa in September 2023 where six members of the Daltons gang fell dead.