On Monday, the proposal of the district attorney on their guilt or not is expected, while the two defendants, who are attributed the physical authorship of the Karaivaz murder, denied their involvement.
In particular, E.L., 49 years old, claimed that on the day of the journalist’s murder and one day before, he had gone to Alimos in his company’s van, which is also one of the main incriminating elements of their involvement, to distribute leaflets .
Because, as he said, he initially did not remember when he was brought by the police for the Karaivaz case: “I say let’s check the diary to see what I was doing at that time. I open at eight and nine (April) and see that there is a brochure stay. I tell them I was driving them. They ask me if I have given it to my brother. I’m not giving a car to his brother, especially to him because I consider him an iron eater” said the defendant while he claimed that the police were pressuring him to say that his brother was the driver.
Q: I read your agenda carefully, I didn’t find any division in other sheets…
K: Usually T… was also responsible for distributing to the nearby areas.
Q: Only two days a year did you hand out flyers in 2021?
K: No, we shared on other days, but I stopped sharing.
Q: So you did twice in 2021?
K: I must have gone 3-4 times but I didn’t note it.
Q: Why didn’t you list it?
K: I might not have had time, I might have done it urgently.
Q: I generally see the calendar full, the agenda was full. Did you fill it in yourself?
K: Yes.
Q: Here (note for handing out leaflets) I think the handwriting is different, do you want to see it again?
K: I think I filled it in.
Finally, the accused repeated that he is innocent, saying that “I have four children, 20, 18, seven and three. A life by the sweat of my heart I have done what I have done, I have done no wrongdoing.”
And the second defendant, aged 41, has denied the charges of murdering Karaivaz. As he said on the day of the murder he had gone with a friend to see a truck in order to buy it and then resell it.
“For me, my life is work and exercise. If we had been arrested 2-5 months later (including murder) we would have done a declassification and we would have known everything. The only thing that made me remember something is the photo on Facebook.”
“This photo was taken by my friend, Antonis and not by me for an alibi as was said, what was heard is unfair. The only photo we have of the truck was when we went and put up signs. I don’t remember what time it was. Lunch hours. It must have been after 2-2:30-3, he came to Nice and picked me up, either from my office or my mother”
He claimed that he had nothing to do with weapons despite the fact that he was going to a shooting range. At the end of his plea, he asked the court to tell him what to do to be… acquitted.
“What do I have to do with national security? Our life has been destroyed here, that I talk, work, exercise, I am wrong, they find that I am in Keratsini on the phone, but…, I want justice Mr. President” said the defendant.
“I have been slandered that I have committed a robbery, my rights have been violated, I was taken to the prisons of Grevena, while I was at school and I had not fought with anyone … we have not done anything, we are innocent, this is unfair, we have been destroyed, we do not know how we will collect our work, tell me what I have to do to do it now, at my own expense, let’s finish” he concluded.
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