New details on the accident in Souda: The 45-year-old tested positive for alcohol, had his keys taken away, and still continued driving

New details person travel to airy astir the fatal mishap connected Souda Avenue successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday, which claimed the beingness of 22-year-old Panagiotis Karatzis.

Specifically, the 45-year-old operator of the Porsche that struck and killed the 22-year-old was recovered to person tested affirmative for intoxicant successful a breathalyzer trial conducted by the Chania Traffic Police.

In fact, the 45-year-old had consumed intoxicant supra the ineligible limit, starring to the confiscation of his keys. They were handed implicit to different operator who arrived astatine the country to cod him. However, the 45-year-old aboriginal regained possession of his car keys and became progressive successful the fatal accident, which claimed the beingness of the 22-year-old, who was driving a achromatic Suzuki.

Additionally, conscionable a fewer hours earlier, specifically astatine 11:20 PM connected Friday night, the exigency hotline (100) received a telephone astir the aforesaid conveyance and operator regarding unsafe driving and provocative behaviour toward different operator successful the Court Square area.

According to the unfortunate who reported the incident, the 45-year-old was making amerciable overtakes and aboriginal exited his vehicle, punching different car with his fists—an incidental that was reported to the police.

It should beryllium noted that the 45-year-old has been arrested, and a preliminary probe into the incidental is underway.

Police Announcement

“Regarding the fatal postulation mishap that occurred successful Chania, Crete, successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Saturday, January 11, 2025, the General Regional Police Directorate of Crete announces the following:

On the nighttime of Friday, January 10, 2025, officers from the Chania Traffic Department caught a operator operating a conveyance nether the power of alcohol. A lawsuit record was filed against him, and his conveyance was immobilized portion the corresponding administrative good was issued.

A consequent intoxicant trial conducted connected different rider of the conveyance yielded a antagonistic result, and the keys were handed implicit to this idiosyncratic with an authoritative grounds of the handover.

Hours later, the offender managed to retrieve the vehicle’s keys and was subsequently progressive successful the fatal postulation accident.

Furthermore, it was determined that the operator did not person a valid driver’s license, arsenic it had antecedently been revoked for a postulation usurpation (driving nether the power of alcohol) by the BOAK Traffic Department.

The applicable Prosecutor of Chania was instantly informed astir the incident, and a lawsuit record has been prepared.

At the aforesaid time, the Internal Affairs Division of Security Forces, pursuing connection with its Prosecutor, forwarded a study from the General Regional Police Directorate of Crete—of which it was a recipient—to the Chania Prosecutor’s Office for further probe into imaginable transgression liability of the constabulary officers involved.

Finally, the General Regional Police Director of Crete has ordered an interior administrative probe into the progressive constabulary officers.”