The confessed perpetrator was located and arrested after midnight in Patras after a coordinated operation by ELAS.
Because the car has passed, as broadcast by ERT, The Prosecutor's order is expected to be issued to pass the door of the Amaliada investigator.
The crime seemed to be premeditated, with the perpetrator intending to "disappear" the traces of the murdered family, γι’ he had started "loading" the bodies in trailers to transport them. According to reports, his family owed him some rents. However, the information says that the 61-year-old wanted to evict them before the lease expired.
The traces of the 61-year-old son of the owner of the apartment he rented in Andravida, the family that was divorced, had been mysteriously lost since Wednesday afternoon., where the tragedy was revealed. After coordinated action by the police, The wanted was arrested in Patras.
Shots from the blocked area during the operation to arrest the perpetrator:
According to patrisnews.gr, police had set up an arrest operation outside his Andravida residence as traffic was observed around his house. As it turned out a little later, he himself had passed by his house and then left. Shortly after midnight on Friday, it was found circulating on the Perimeter Road of Patras at the height of Pampeloponnisiaki Stadium where a block had been set up, with police officers to stop him and then arrest him without any resistance.
See photos of prof’ confessor of the perpetrator:
The testimony of the 12-year-old's friend is shocking
At the same time, the testimony of the friend of the 12-year-old boy in the newspaper "Patris", who was together at the time of the horrible discovery, is shocking..
"We went for a walk in the afternoon and at some point we went to his house together to get something he wanted. Knocked on the door, but no one opened. And he tells us to wait for him to come in through the window. Suddenly he tells me “fast fast come in something has happened my mother”. I also enter through the window, we look for the house and see the baby in the crib and we thought he was sleeping. Then we saw blood in the room where the parents slept. But we did not see the other members of the family in the house. Then I went out and my friend came out holding his brother, who had bright red marks on his throat and blood in his mouth… ».
The biological father of the 12-year-old who survived the massacre also went to Andravida, in order to take him with him to Athens where he lives and works.
Execute the parents, drowned the children
According to the head of the forensic service of Patras, Angeliki Tsiola, "So much the body of the 32-year-old father, and the body of the 37-year-old mother suffered head injuries from a short-barreled firearm ". as far as the two children are concerned, aged three and two years, respectively "cause of death of both is suffocation by blocking the outer openings of the airways", while on the time of death of all four members of the family, stated that “from the time of the first autopsy at home, that is, around 9:30 last Wednesday night, it had been about four and a half to five hours since his death.
also, has been sampled for DNA traces in order for this information to be used to identify the perpetrator.
