Suspects in double campsite murder given until Sunday to testify

Bystanders take photographs of the constabulary αυτοκίνητο taking the two 22-year-old suspects to the Kalamata courthouse successful the southwestern Peloponnese, connected Wednesday, October 15, where they were fixed until Sunday to hole their testimonies. [InTime News]

Two 22-year-old men accused of carrying retired a treble homicide astatine a campground successful Finikounda, southern Greece, person been fixed until Sunday to testify earlier an investigative magistrate, arsenic constabulary proceed to analyse a tangled web of inheritance disputes, extortion and allegations of intersexual abuse.

One of the 22-year-olds has allegedly been identified by the lone eyewitness of the incidental – the nephew of 1 of the victims – arsenic having fired the shots that killed the 68-year-old campsite proprietor and his adjacent person and assistant, aged 61. 

The different suspect turned himself successful earlier this week, saying helium went to the campsite with the shooter with the purpose of extorting wealth from the 68-year-old but was waiting extracurricular when the onslaught took place. He has besides confessed to being connected the backmost of the getaway motorcycle used by the alleged shooter connected the cross-country trip from the southwestern Peloponnese backmost to their location basal successful Athens.

The alleged accomplice has further claimed that helium was trying to extort wealth from the 68-year-old victim by threatening to exposure a intersexual battle that, helium says, took spot a fewer years earlier, when helium was a minor, and staying astatine the campsite arsenic a guest. Another assertion constabulary are investigating is that helium swam a region of astir 60 kilometers from Foinikounda to Kalamata to evade detection and met up with the alleged shooter successful Kalamata for the travel to Athens. The 22-year-old’s lawyer has dismissed skepticism of that claim, saying that the suspect has trained for the Greek military’s special forces and would beryllium susceptible of swimming that distance.

The alleged shooter, meanwhile, has denied pulling the trigger, with his respective lawyer pointing to the accomplice and indicating that this special forces training would person fixed him the cognition of firearms to transportation retired the treble execution. 

Authorities proceed to analyse the inconsistencies successful the suspects’ allegations. In the meantime, however, they are besides looking intimately into the claims made by the 68-year-old’s nephew, who stands to inherit the lion’s stock of his uncle’s important assets, including the full profitable campsite, which is located connected 1 of the area’s astir fashionable beaches.

He is, so acold astatine least, the lone eyewitness to the shooting, claiming that helium was with his uncle and the adjunct successful the campsite’s reception bureau when a young antheral matching the alleged shooter’s statement walked in, made an enquiry astir an accommodation spot and then pulled retired a gun, firing two shots astatine the 68-year-old, 1 astatine his adjunct arsenic helium ran and different astatine the nephew, which went disconnected people and deed a campervan parked nearby.

The 68-year-old’s astir caller will, notarized conscionable a fewer days earlier the execution and leaving astir of his assets to the nephew and wholly cutting retired a niece, is besides being scrutinized, arsenic are indications that the victim had been attacked and threatened connected respective occasions earlier helium was killed connected October 5.