2024-03-01 13:26:28
The information provided by a foreign shopkeeper who runs a business in the center of Athens, an anonymous phone call and the video footage from seven cameras in the wider area where Manolis Kandaris was murdered led the police authorities to the tracks of the two Afghan defendants.
This is revealed through the evidence of the file that has been created for the case and is in the hands of the 9th regular investigator, to whom the two accused, aged 27 and 20, are expected to plead on Wednesday.
According to information, the police found out from the observation of the video footage that the three perpetrators of the murder, the two Afghans and another unknown man of Pakistani origin, at dawn on May 10 and at least half an hour before the murder, were looking for people in order to kill them. rob, moving in the wider area of the murder (Marni, Epirus, September 3rd, etc.).
A few seconds before the attack on the unfortunate 44-year-old, according to information, what is captured on the cameras shows that they followed him and after the first two stabbings, after taking his camera, they also took an unknown amount of money from his wallet.
The police officers from the seven cameras had managed to have in their hands the first important element in order to reach the resolution of the case. One of the attackers wears white clothes and his facial features are clearly visible. According to the data in the case file, this is about the 27-year-old Afghan arrested.
Four days after the murder, the statement to the police of a foreign shopkeeper in the center of Athens brings them even closer to the 27-year-old, as well as his 20-year-old accomplice.
The shopkeeper, according to information, testified that an Afghan man left the camera in his shop for someone else to pick up. And since the case of the murder was now playing first topic on televisions and in the press, he asked him if they took a human life for the camera. Then the accused allegedly replied that “he was shouting a lot ‘thief, help’, what should I do?”. He then identified the 27-year-old in the camera photos, his 20-year-old accomplice and the camera.
Two days later, an unknown person called the Police and in broken Greek stated that the perpetrator is Afghan and gave his mobile phone number, which was later found by the Police to belong to the 27-year-old.
The two defendants, according to information, in their pre-trial apologies confessed to their participation in the robbery and murder and recognized their faces in the video footage. They reportedly claim, however, that the 44-year-old was fatally wounded by their unknown accomplice of Pakistani origin. The 27-year-old allegedly admitted that he took the camera and sold it in Omonia for 120 euros.
Vaso Palaio
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