Investigations into the cold-blooded murder of Yannis Skaftouros on Easter Monday in the yard of his house in Dervenochoria, Boeotia, are continuing at a rapid pace.
As reported online from Boeotia, the reporter of MEGA, Marinos Aliferis, the perpetrators at the time of their flight made an important mistake, which may particularly help the police authorities in identifying them.
Specifically, the two perpetrators, who were allegedly the ones who entered the victim's yard and fired, abandoned the two-wheeler they were on, probably due to mechanical failure.
Then the perpetrators, after stunning a passing driver, tried to flee in a farm vehicle. The killers tried to snatch it, hitting the driver with the barrel of a Kalashnikov.
"He was leaving Skurta, saw a motorbike, got down to help, they hit him and said give us the car," a witness said.
In their panic, they reversed the vehicle, which "got stuck" in the mud next to the main road, so they were forced to abandon it and escape on foot to the surrounding mountains.
The Police of Boeotia "lifted" a helicopter and drones to locate them, but so far they have not been found.
The police of Boeotia "lifted" a helicopter and drones to locate them, but so far they have not been located. The investigations continue...
Why did he give his bodyguards a day off, despite the fact that he was afraid
All this, while the police are trying to put together the puzzle of the cold-blooded murder of Giannis Skaftouros, combining pieces from his past and any "open accounts" in the dark world of the Greek Mafia.
The hired killers seem to have had the ultimate information. "Uncle Joe" as he was known in the night circles, was always walking in the "shadows", under complete protection, in an armored vehicle, under the watchful eye of armed men. Except at noon on Easter Monday.
Few were those who knew that Giannis Skaftouros had given his bodyguards a day off until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Although he feared for his life, he never expected that the assassins would carry out the contract of death under his name at his country house in Skourta, Boeotia.
Yannis Skaftouros was dancing zebeciko at the same spot where a few hours later he fell dead from the bullets of his killers. The assassins gassed him, shooting with a Kalashnikov indiscriminately, without considering any... collateral damage.
The wounding of Skaftouros' daughter and another relative proves it. The target was one and had to die.
"Another death of the crime syndicate, another execution of the many that have occurred in recent years," said the ELA unionist. Stavros Balaskas.
The execution of the "contract"
A female relative and neighbor of Yannis Skaftouros, described exclusively to the MEGA camera what they heard yesterday afternoon. "We are distressed, we heard many shots and then crying" she stressed.
There were four professional killers and they arrived at the field next to that of Skaftouros with two motorbikes. They pulled out their Kalashnikovs and without being noticed, within seconds they approached their victim at point-blank range and started shooting at him.
Reports say that before the 55-year-old man fell dead, he managed to return fire... So did a relative, who drew a gun and apparently attempted to chase them, to no avail.
A second scenario has the perpetrators approaching from the underside and climbing a fence before shooting.
They were looking for a vehicle to flee
Police mobilization was immediate. They even took off in a helicopter to get an aerial view of the surrounding mountainous areas. A few hours later, one of the two motorbikes of the perpetrators was found dumped in a field.
"Expensive contract of death"
The policemen are turning over all the evidence they have at their disposal. "We have the motorbike, the pickup truck, we are looking at the cameras from Athens to here and back and we have other clues to lead us to the perpetrators," Balaskas added.
Police officers believe that the Skaftourou execution was an expensive contract of death, very well planned, perhaps by perpetrators who often come from abroad and leave the country before the police even arrive at the scene of the crime.
Source: in.gr
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