The employee of the airport “El. Venizelos” that he had submitted against Lefteris Avgenakis, stating in his application that it was a common incident, which was covered by the media.

In particular, as the employee’s lawyer, Eleni Samaritaki, stated to ERT, the revocation request was already submitted last Friday, July 12, to the Airport Police Department and is headed to Athens Primary Prosecutor’s Officefrom where the preliminary examination had been ordered.

According to the employee’s lawyers, he made the following statement accompanying the recall request:

“That day I was a gate agent on the flight to Heraklion, Crete and a passenger was delayed and missed his flight.

The passenger was Mr. Avgenakis whom I did not know personally. The unfortunate incident, which is common for airport workers, was covered by the Mass Media with many inaccuracies and exaggerations. The incident did not happen in the way presented by the media.

It was spur of the moment in the context of misunderstanding. So after the sincere apology of Mr. Avgenakis himself, the incident has ended and no issue arises between us. A big thank you to my company Gold Air Handling, for the support”