Usually he had personal security, but tonight he wasn’t with him and the executioners obviously knew that
Inside his car at Pen was found charred the businessman, Christos Gialias, who was assassinated just 200 meters from his home.
According to what has become known so far, the perpetrators were riding a motorcycle and the passenger seems to have been the one who gassed the 59-year-old driver, from the right side. The businessman was shot at least 15 times as at least 15 Kalashnikov casings have been found.
The perpetrators then got off the motorcycle, threw the Kalashnikov inside the victim’s car while they set fire to the vehicle as a result of which the 59-year-old who was a meat trader was charred.
OR ERT secured a video document showing the car, in which the charred businessman was found, engulfed in flames.
The perpetrators then fled the area on a motorcycle. According to information from ERT, a burnt-out motorbike has been found in the area of Pachi Megara and the officers of the Homicide Department who have undertaken the investigation are examining whether this motorbike is connected to the brutal murder.
The businessman, according to information from police sources, had personal security, which he did not have with him today and his killers probably knew this.
As security officers report, valuable items may have been lost as the Fire Service poured too much water to put out the fire on the burning vehicle.
It is noted that the businessman’s ex-wife was murdered in 2018 by two brothers. The motive then was robbery, she had been ambushed again in this area, outside her house, she had been shot and killed and robbed. Subsequently, this case was solved, the perpetrators were arrested and they have been sent to prison. The two cases do not appear to be connected at this time.
