“Hooliganism and brutal violence have no place in sports and wrestling”

The Hellenic Wrestling Federation issued a statement after the events of brutal violence that took place in the Panhellenic Men-Women Championship.

Analytically: “The Hellenic Wrestling Federation, in the most categorical way, unequivocally condemns the events of brutal violence that took place at the Panhellenic Men-Women Wrestling Championship in Kilkis and resulted in not allowing the Championship to be held.

The federal coach and two-time Olympian, Amiran Kardanov, and the distinguished former champion, Nikos Loizidis, were massively attacked and brutally beaten by more than thirty people, inside and outside the field.

At the same time, the members of the Board of Directors received insulting and vulgar verbal attacks, while athletes who wanted to compete and traveled to Kilkis for the Panhellenic Championship could not participate, for fear of those who played and received the same threats. their coaches.

Forty or fifty people did not allow the more than 300 athletes who had declared their participation to compete … The brutal violence (verbal and physical) and the unprecedented bullying that everyone received on the field took place on the occasion of the “protest” of an “athlete club”. which is not recognized by ELOP. A club that, as has unfortunately been proven in practice, does not aim to develop the sport, but to impose their views in non-democratic ways.

The president of the club is Petros Manouilidis, while in the “protests” was led by George Pilidis. The world champion used vulgar expressions and threats to the president of ELOP, Stergios Leonakis, and the other members of the board different opinion.

Reactions that, in no case, should express the ethos of a world champion, who should be a model for young children and serve the Olympic values ​​and fight well …

George Pakhtas, who has been sentenced by the Athens Court of Appeals to 14 months in prison for defamation of the former president of ELOP, Dimitris Trampakoulas, was present at the stadium and talked constantly with the athletes-coaches who made the “protest”.

The Hellenic Wrestling Federation, in no case, is going to tolerate these incidents. In the immediate future, the Board will meet and decide on the assignment of responsibilities to all the athletes, coaches and actors involved who planned, organized and participated in the heinous events, while it will initiate all legal proceedings as provided by the new law to address of violence in sports venues (49.08.2022).

At the same time, extensive information will be provided to the competent bodies. The Deputy Minister of Sports, Lefteris Avgenakis, the GGA, George Mavrotas, the Hellenic Olympic Committee, as well as the Committee for Fan, Ethics and Ethics will be informed immediately.

At the same time, ELOP will submit a detailed file by recording all the data to the prosecutor’s office, in order to initiate all legal procedures.

Wrestling is the most historic sport and the virtues that it inherits from antiquity until today should be followed in future generations. No one has the right to tarnish the history of the sport. “Hooliganism and brutal violence, wherever they come from, have no place in sports and in the wrestling family.”

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