Rendis: How EL.AS came to arrest 18-year-old who injured policeman – the phrase that betrayed him

Developments are accelerating in the arrest of an 18-year-old man who admitted to firing a flare at a 31-year-old man who was injured and hospitalized in critical condition by a police officer in Rendez-vous. – fast.

An 18-year-old youth was among the 424 brought in, who confessed to every detail of how he threw the fire and injured the police officer when he was arrested.

The phrase that betrayed him

However, it appears that the 18-year-old’s words to one of the organized fans after the incidents at Rendis led to his arrest. As he reported on SKAI’s lunchtime news bulletin, immediately after the attack, the 18-year-old bragged to other organized fans that “they beat her to the police” and he himself managed to kill one.

The police, acting on some information they received, called one of the suspects at noon on Saturday and revealed that the 18-year-old confessed to throwing the navy fire at him. policeman

After the authorities confirmed the information, the 18-year-old went to his girlfriend’s house where he was staying and arrested him.

“I don’t have him for this, I would have gone to the police if I had known” – 18-year-old’s father said

The 18-year-old’s father said during his first statement to ERT that he did not believe his son could do this and that if he had been told, he would have gone and testified himself and made his position lighter.

The 18-year-old’s father said, among other things, that if his son had actually done it, he had “ruined his life” and that his young son was present at the stadium the night of the incidents. In GADA.

As the father said, “Last night they caught him at his girlfriend’s house. He was among those arrested on Thursday but was released on Friday night. I got to know about it from his girlfriend who took me to Gada to bring him food. Some policemen came from here and from the house and said that they have arrested 15-20 more people.

I don’t know anything else. Now my little son is also in GADA, 16 years old, he was also in the stadium and he is giving evidence. This kid was 18 years old and drank only orange juice. He’s going to school to be a plumber and I’m not doing that. If my son had told me, I would have gone to testify myself, to ease his position. If he really did it, he goes, ruined his life.

He reportedly told the police

The 18-year-old was one of the 424 brought to the GADA building initially and admitted every detail of how he threw the volcano and injured the policeman.

In particular, he said he had heard that police officers would be attacked outside the stadium and that he, along with others, had been told at times to go outside the closed area.

Then some gave them various weapons like Molotov cocktails, sticks, stones and flares. “They gave me a Navy flare and showed me how to activate it,” he testified, adding that he then saw the flare hit the ground and stick to the officer’s leg.

Finally, the 18-year-old admitted to returning to the stadium with others, which led to his arrest along with 423 others.