Author Menis Koumandareas, who was found dead in his apartment at the district of Kypseli on Saturday with marks on his face, was strangled, the coroners’ report revealed today.

According to coroners Nikos Karakoukis and Christina Tsakona, who conducted the post-mortem autopsy and internal examination of the corpse, the author sustained heavy injuries in the head and abdomen regions.

Koumandareas’s murderer savagely beat his victim before killing him, the coroners’ report says. Moreover, according to Mr. Karakoukis, the head of the Forensic Medical Service of Athens, the autopsy findings make a manslaughter charge.