Dead inside the gym he was running, in Eastern Thessaloniki, was found at noon on Tuesday by the well-known coach, Giorgos Papanaum.
According to protothema.gr, a familiar face of the 50-year-old saw an alarming post he made on social media and alerted the police. When the police arrived at the gym he kept, at 47 Gambetta Street, they found the well-known coach hanged.
[/P]So far, there are no traces that indicate a murderous act and his death is attributed to suicide. However, in a note he allegedly left on his personal Facebook account before he made the foolhardy move, he reportedly "pointed" to several people and linked them to his decision, while leaving "spikes" about schemes to exploit businessmen.
Due to the content of the note and the dimensions of the news of his death, the Head of the Prosecutor's Office of the Thessaloniki Prosecutor's Office instructed the case to be investigated by the Department of Crimes against Life of the Security Directorate of Thessaloniki. According to the same information, it will be investigated whether there are moral perpetrators behind his suicide, while a prosecutor's investigation has been ordered into the circumstances of his death.
According to information from protothema.gr, shortly before George Papanaoum ended his life, he allegedly made a... strange post on social networks, which was later "taken down". According to reports, in his last message he described how he was deceived by the woman he was in love with, while he clearly left "spikes" for her involvement in a circuit that exploits well-known businessmen and prominent people and in which, in fact, underage girls also participate.
This message, which is written in the first person and "reveals" a man who is confused and desperate, describes how this woman managed to deceive him and siphon off his entire fortune. According to reports, it "shows" a woman who at first he trusted her and believed her to be "kind-hearted" but eventually managed to extract, initially, 90,000 euros and then a further 400,000 euros, with the result that he lost his entire fortune. In fact, one day before his birthday, this woman disappeared and stopped all communication with him.
In the same message, he complains that this woman belongs to a circuit that systematically deceived prominent people and businessmen of Thessaloniki, in order to extort money from them. "I apologize to God, to my spiritual director for upsetting him and to all those who love me, to all athletes," the post reportedly concludes.
What people who knew him say
The news of his death exploded like a "bomb" in the neighborhood of Thessaloniki and people involved in gymnastics and sports and no one can believe that a man who was constantly with a smile on his lips ended his life. People who have known him for decades told protothema.gr that George Papanaum was a father of three children and had never mentioned to them that he was facing any serious problem, beyond "minor problems" of everyday life.
"What he kept telling those who went to his gym to work out and instructing them was that he intended to work out people's smiles first and then their bodies. We can't believe that George left in this way, we all loved him," a neighbour told protothema.gr. "We saw him very often but he never talked to us about problems that were bothering him," he noted.
Source: protothema.gr
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