With the interrogation of Leonidas Gennadiou, a police officer serving in the TAE Headquarters, a member of the Police investigative team that collected the closed surveillance circuits, continued today before the Permanent Criminal Court of Larnaca - Famagusta, the hearing was held in the evening. June 23 in Ayia Napa.
The victims of the attack were businessman Fanos Kalopsidiotis, police officer Elias Hadjiefuthymiou, his wife Skevi Hadjieffthymiou and Yiani Vogli, one of the perpetrators.
Defendants are 42-year-old Loy Dejan, 39-year-old Marios Christodoulou, 38-year-old Benny, 28-year-old Panagiotis Pentavkas and XNUMX-year-old Sofia Grigoriou, who are jointly facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder, premeditated murder, attempted murder, and premeditated acts. bodily injury, possession of a B-class firearm, possession of a class A firearm, possession of a B-class firearm and possession of a class A firearm.
The four defendants were taken to the Criminal Court room, accompanied by armed MAAD police officers, who were by their side throughout the proceedings. The courtroom was filled with police officers from various services of the Force.
Answering questions from Michalis Pikis, Marios Christodoulou's defense attorney, regarding yesterday's video that was shown and records various movements of the murdered Fanos Kalopsidiotis, the witness said that "combining all the shots taken by the cameras with the cameras The restaurant where the murder was committed, the person who gets out of the car, the body type and the clothes he is wearing are Fanos Kalopsidiotis ”.
Mr. Pikis stated that "I can only see a person with pants walking and I can not see anything else" while in submission that "the Police can not determine from any plan who the car is and who is the man who gets out of it ", The witness repeated that the person is Fanos Kalopsidiotis.
Michalis Pikis also submitted to the witness that what was recorded by the cameras of the closed surveillance system of a hotel in Limassol, where Sofia Grigoriou and Marios Christodoulou were seen at the reception on 25 and 26/6/2016, are not a basis for anyone to arrive at a safe conclusions regarding closed circuits.
This was followed by the examination of the witness by Nikos Dimitriou, defense attorney of Panagiotis Pentavkas, who was arrested after the confession of Isovitis Charalambos Andreou, who was driving the perpetrators' car and claimed that Pentavkas did not indicate the specific route was closed.
Mr. Dimitriou asked to be informed if Leonidas Gennadiou had in mind the testimony of a specific person according to which, a few minutes after the shootings at The Stone Garden restaurant, he saw a dark Mercedes car in which three hooded men were riding, one of whom was limping. to move from Katalimaton Street to Nissi Street. According to the witness near the Ayia Napa cemetery the person who was limping got out of the car and the person sitting in the back went and sat in front.
The witness replied that he had heard about the relevant testimony and that other colleagues had followed the specific path.
In a remark by Mr. Dimitriou that the specific witness was in a prominent position and could see very well what had unfolded after the shootings, Leonidas Gennadiou said that from the investigations that he did with the closed surveillance circuits, neither the Mercedes nor the and the people who rode on it.
In another remark by Nikos Dimitriou that according to a witness who was in the area of Stone Garden, there was another hooded perpetrator who even threatened him, the witness said that the Police believe that this person was the wanted Alex Bureli.
At the insistence of the defense counsel that throughout the escape route there were a total of 13 cameras from closed surveillance systems which were not exploited by the Police, the witness admitted that there were cameras but the data contained in them could not be used by the Police for various reasons.
Mr. Dimitriou also referred to cameras that existed in the Diamond club owned by his client Panagiotis Pentavkas and which he installed. He also referred to the Toga - Toga club owned by his client who had cameras, however the Police did not receive them to check their content.
"The work of the Police put in an unfavorable position the defense of my client" said Nikos Dimitriou, adding that "my client himself brought a technician and recorded where he was on June 23 and 24, 2016 and now we are trying to prove our innocence" after , as he claimed "the Police insisted not to take the cameras of the closed circuit monitoring of the Toga - Toga club. My client challenged and begged the Police to take these cameras and if he took them he would see various things "about the case.
He also said that "the omission of the Police forces us to have to prove our innocence."
The witness called Nikos Dimitriou to address "the people who committed the omission", said that "the Police had no reason to check the closed monitoring circuits of the Toga - Toga club" and noted that "we did the work that needed to be done" .
Continuing, Mr. Dimitriou reiterated that "there were omissions by the Police", while he left "a rebuke against the investigative team because" as he explained "you deprived the accused 2 (Panagiotis Pentavkas) of having a fair trial, precisely because of the omission to take the cameras from the Doca - Doca club, as he begged you, since the specific cameras would shed enough light on the case ".
Responding to questions from Loy Dejan's defense attorney, the witness said that he did not know where the information about the Mercedes car in which three hooded men were riding came from, that the closed monitoring circuits he checked did not confirm this and expressed the opinion that this information was misinformation.
Moreover, in the submission of Alexandros Clerides, defense attorney of Sofia Grigoriou that one can not distinguish that in the closed circuit of a hotel in Protaras they appear except for Charalambos Andreou and his client, the witness said that it is his own assessment that the video shows Sophia Grigoriou.
In the remark of the lawyer that what appears on the camera from the closed circuit is not safe conclusions for the Court, the witness replied that it is up to the Court to judge.
The hearing will continue tomorrow with the testimony of two other witnesses, Alexis Mavromichalis and George Charalambous, that is, the police officer who was sitting at the table of Fanos Kalopsidiotis at the time of the quadruple murder.
Source: KYPE