The trial of two 29-year-old Greeks, Dimitris Mamalikopoulos and 41-year-old Anastasios Tsechilidis, who are accused of the premeditated murder of 5 people, for the transfer of a firearm to a C-type firearm. without the permission of the Chief of Police, illegal possession of explosives, ie 14 rounds of 9 mm firearms and illegal transport of explosives, ie 14 rounds of 9 mm firearms.
Mamalikopoulos and Tsehilidis, who did not plead guilty, were charged with five counts, one for each victim, that in the early hours of June 23, 2012, in the central square of Ayia Napa, they deliberately committed an illegal act, ie shooting with a Class B firearm. , 33-year-old Filippos Loukaidis and 28-year-old Marios Karaolis from Nicosia, 35-year-old George Georgiou from Paralimni and 25-year-old Georgian Catalin Koman and 33-year-old Marcel Aurel Coleasa from Romania
The last witness of the prosecution, the Greek George Karathanasis, head of the team of special digital video analysts, testified at the trial. The team analyzed all the videos received from the scene and the area of the fivefold murder in order to identify the persons appearing in the videos with the two accused Dimitris Mamalikopoulos and Anastasios Tsehilidis.
Submitting to the court the 108-page report he prepared on the analysis of the video, Mr. Karathanasis said that the report was prepared after an autopsy and a three-dimensional scan of the area where the crime was committed in the early morning hours of June 23, 2012 in its center. Ayia Napa.
Regarding the video that recorded the crime scene from the camera of the Zic Zac brewery, Mr. Karathanasis said that in the human figure that appears with an outstretched hand from the left side of the car, there is a protrusion at the height of the head, which is consistent with jockey hat.
A similar hat appears to be worn by the person shown in another video running, about 20 seconds after the murder, to the rental car parked outside the Ayia Napa church. According to the accusing authority, this person is Dimitris Mamalikopoulos.
The Greek expert added that in relation to the video of the crime, the analysis shows that the executor completes the fivefold murder in just five seconds. Essentially the human figure appears in front of the car and six seconds later runs away.
About three seconds before appearing in the video, Georgiou, who was driving the BMW, presses the brake twice and the vehicle, after turning sharply to the right, stops. According to the prosecution, the explanation for this is that the executor, first shot the driver once from a short distance and then approached the car and in five seconds emptied the bullet case of the Glock weapon that held the five victims.
Source: ANT1