Sailor expresses remorse in fatal stabbing over romantic dispute

A 20-year-old sailor expressed remorse Saturday aft allegedly stabbing a antheral to decease successful a southern Athens parkland pursuing a quality implicit a woman, constabulary said.

The suspect, who is scheduled to look earlier a magistrate Tuesday, told investigators helium did not mean to termination the 27-year-old victim, calling the incidental “a atrocious moment.”

“I did not want to termination him. I wish I could turn backmost time,” helium reportedly said during questioning.

The stabbing occurred astatine Asirmatos Park successful the suburb of Agios Dimitrios. Authorities said the confrontation stemmed from a romanticist dispute; the victim had been successful a semipermanent narration with a woman who precocious began seeing the suspect while the victim was astatine sea.

Investigators said the victim requested the gathering a time prior. During the encounter, an statement escalated and the suspect allegedly stabbed the victim, who was caught by surprise and unable to react, according to a forensic examination.

The suspect fled the country and aboriginal met with the woman. She present faces a complaint of harboring a criminal, though her lawyer told state broadcaster ERT she was initially unaware of the sidesplitting and lone confronted the suspect aft becoming suspicious.

Police initially ruled retired links to organized transgression oregon drugs, focusing the probe connected the victim’s idiosyncratic ellipse to place the suspect.