Police shot & wounded a man who pulled a gun during a check – He was also carrying six grenades
A team of eight police officers approached the man in order to check him, but he reacted by pulling out a gun. He allegedly attempted to shoot, but one officer managed to fire his service weapon first. A bomb disposal unit was called to the scene, and the area was cordoned off
Pre-trial detention ordered for the 89-year-old gunman for the shootings at EFKA and the Court of Appeal
In front of the investigating magistrate, he repeated what he had said during the preliminary investigation, namely that he had no intent to kill and that he had been planning the attack for months
The police officer who arrested the 89-year-old in a hotel in Patras: “I pretended to be a guest—he told me ‘now all the tv channels will show me’”
Police officer Charalambos Tsitsikas described, minute by minute, how he approached and subdued the 89-year-old gunman who had injured five people at the EFKA office in Kerameikos and at the Athens Court of First Instance building
