2023-08-13 15:26:41
Justice advances. Forty people were arrested and placed in pre-trial detention in Greece, following the death of a young football fan on Monday evening in violence between two ultra bands. This brings to 70 the number of people accused in this case which has moved the country, indicates a judicial source. A hundred people were arrested in violent incidents on Monday evening between ultras from Dinamo Zagreb and AEK Athens in Nea Filadelfia, a western suburb of the Greek capital.
The majority of those charged so far are Croats suspected of being linked to the Bad Blue Boys, Dinamo Zagreb hooligans, who had traveled to Greece the day before a Champions League preliminary match, reported by the UEFA on August 19 following this tragedy. Those detained, who denied being involved in the death of Michalis Katsouris, 29, are generally charged with homicide, participation in a criminal organization and illegal possession of weapons, according to a judicial source.
On Sunday, the investigating judges must complete their interrogations with the hearing of thirty other defendants. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke on the phone with UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin, who is due to travel to Athens on Wednesday to discuss the problems “in Greek and European football”, the government said on Friday.
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