The employee of the restaurant "The Stone Garden" and the medical examiner testified yesterday
The witness stated that on the night of June 23, he went to the table of Fanos Kalopsidiotis to say goodnight to him before he finished school, while "he caught my eye two hooded men from the side of the next restaurant".
With the testimony of an employee of the restaurant "The Stone Garden" and the medical examiner Sophocles Sophocles, the hearing for the quadruple murder committed on the night of June 23, 2016 in Agia continued yesterday before the Permanent Criminal Court of Larnaca - Famagusta. Victims of the attack were businessman Fanos Kalopsidiotis, police officer Elias Hadjiefthymiou, his wife Skei Hadjiefthymiou and Yiani Vogli, one of the perpetrators.
The accused are Loy Dejan, 42 years old, Marios Christodoulou, otherwise Benny, 39 years old, Panagiotis Pentavkas, 38 years old and Sofia Grigoriou, 28 years old, who jointly face the charges of conspiracy to murder, premeditated murder, attempted murder, attempted murder. intended to cause grievous bodily harm, possession of a Class B firearm, possession of a Class A firearm, possession of a Class B firearm and possession of a Class A firearm.
He caught the eye of two hooded men
Christakis Tsagaras, an employee at the reception of the "Stone Garden" restaurant, initially testified, who read in the Court the testimony he gave to the Police and in which he stated that around 10.05 on the night of June 23, 2016 he went to the table of Fanos Kalopsidiotis to Good night before school and then went to say good night to the owner's wife.
There, he continued, "I caught sight of two hooded men on the side of the restaurant next door ('Edelwise') walking slowly, one holding a large automatic rifle. I said, my Lady, something bad will happen, and in a few seconds they started firing.
"I heard 2-3 shots and then many shots like a burst and I fell to the floor," the witness said characteristically.
He did not see his face
He added, "When the shootings ended, I went out and saw Fanos Kalopsidiotis, a man and a woman on the floor and a lot of blood around them. "I also saw another person holding his right side from where blood was running to the exit of the restaurant," he said, adding that he did not see his face, nor did he know who he was.
According to the witness, "as soon as the shootings were over, I saw the bodyguard of Fanos Kalopsidiotis, Loy Dejan, standing to the right of the wooden bar and asked me" what happened ", that is, what happened, and I showed him with my hands the dead on the floor ", Noting that Dejan" was very calm, he was not scared ".
He saw only two hooded men
Interrogated by Michalis Pikis, defense attorney of Marios Christodoulos, otherwise Benny, the witness said that the two hooded men he saw on the night of the murder "had a slow pace, stopped at one point and one started firing with a machine gun. I got up from the floor when the evil ended, when the shooting stopped. "
In another question of Mr. Pikis, the witness said that "I do not know if there was a third hooded man, I only saw the two", they were walking in the corridor that separates the restaurants "The Stone Garden" and "Edelwise", "since they must have passed from the specific corridor "and" I heard at the beginning 2-3 shots like shot by shot and then continuous shots like the burst ".
Dejan was very calm
During the interrogation of Nikos Dimitriou, defense attorney of Panagiotis Pentavkas, the witness said that when he saw the two hooded men he thought that something bad would happen and then the shootings started. "I grabbed the restaurant owner's wife and we fell to the floor, where we stayed for 2-3 minutes, I was shocked, scared," he noted.
Examined by Loy Dejan's defense attorney, Mr. Tsagaras said that after the shootings he saw Fanos (Dejan)'s bodyguard and asked him "what happened", while other people were near him, including a waiter.
Asked by the lawyer that Dejan did not ask him "what happened" but asked the waiter next to him "are you ok?", Mr. Tsagaras replied that he did not know, adding that the waiter was also shocked.
"Dejan was very calm, he was not afraid," he said. In the remark of the lawyer that Dejan was also afraid of what happened, the witness said that "I do not object, I have nothing against the man, he did not seem scared".
What the medical examiner saw on the scene
The medical examiner Sophocleous then testified, who together with his colleagues Nikolas Charalambous and Aggeliki Papetta performed an autopsy at the murder scene that night. He mentioned, in particular, that on the night of 23/6/2016 he and his colleagues saw in the yard of the restaurant "The Stone Garden" three corpses carrying bullets and in another covered area next to the yard another corpse (Yani Vogli).
Mr. Sophocles read in the Court the forensic medical reports that he prepared for the injured MMAD police officer George Charalambous and for Skevi Hadjiefthymiou and Yani Vogli, at whom he performed an autopsy.
Regarding Giorgos Charalambous, the medical examiner said that he examined him at the General Hospital of Nicosia on 30/6/2016 and had, among other things, bruising of the right and left orbit, two injuries on the dorsal surface of the left arm, two injuries on the anterior region of the left forearm. , abrasion in the left lateral thoracic region and surgical incision sutured in the right anterior part of the knee with extension to the right lower thigh.
Regarding the autopsy of Hadjiefthymiou, Mr. Sophocleous said that it was performed at the General Hospital of Nicosia on 24/6/2016 and brought an entry wound from the right eye and an exit wound in the left temple. He added that the cause of death of the Utensil was a severe head injury caused by a firearm, that the wound he sustained was transparent, that is, he had an entrance and an exit and that the clothes he was wearing that night were very bloody.
For Yani Vogli, the medical examiner said that he performed an autopsy on his body at the General Hospital of Nicosia on 24/6/2016, that he had an entry wound in the right lower back and an exit wound in the left chest at the height of the nipple. He also stated that the deceased had a ruptured heart and lung from the bullet he received and that the cause of death was internal bleeding caused by a firearm. According to Mr. Sophocles, Vogli suffered a through wound, ie the bullet entered at points below the right shoulder and came out of the left thoracic region under the nipple.
Identify the space from photos
The medical examiner identified from photos the place where the bodies of the victims were during the autopsy that was carried out in the restaurant where the murders were committed. He also explained to the Court from photographs the injuries inflicted by police officer George Charalambous and the procedure followed at various stages of the autopsy he performed on the bodies of 39-year-old Skevi Hatziefthymiou and Yani Vogli.
For Yani Vogli, the medical examiner said that he was wearing two black hoods and two pairs of gloves, one plastic and one black and that he had lost a lot of blood.
He added that the items found on his clothes included his Albanian passport and identity card, a wallet, a Virgin Mary, three rosaries, a gold chain, a wooden cross, a piece of silver paper with cotton inside (possibly oil), balls and a stuffing box. weapon. The hearing will continue this morning.
Source: Sigma Live