The 17-year-old suspect, who has confessed to the crime, appeared before the investigating judge. He is accused of fatal injury of the 15-year-old in Kallithea.

The 17-year-old offers a different account of the events that unfolded on Wednesday night in Kallithea before the 15-year-old was killed, who speaks of a raid by fans that culminated in the bloody incident.

According to protothema.gr, in the statement the 17-year-old gave to the police, he describes how a group of about 25 people wearing Olympiacos jerseys arrived on Panagi Tsaldari Street looking for an AEK fan. A chase ensued with the perpetrator’s group, which ended in front of the apartment building where the 17-year-old stabbed the 15-year-old in the chest.

“Yesterday at 6:00 p.m., I met up with my friends M.P., K.K., K.D., and two other kids from the neighborhood, N. and I., I don’t know their full names.

We sat there for two or three hours, and around 10:00–10:30 p.m. we left and went to Peronia Park, located on Kremou Street. It’s a short distance, so we walked there. The park was very crowded, so we didn’t stay there, and just as we were about to leave, P.-D. H. caught up with us and said, “I’m by the river—come hang out.”

We walked there again since it’s only a five-minute walk. We found him by the river, and as soon as I saw him, I realized his leg was swollen. I didn’t have time to ask him what had happened, and shortly after, 15–20 people wearing Olympiacos jerseys came toward us from the Moschato–Kallithea bridge.

Mr. K. told them, “Hold on, guys, we’re not fans.” They started closing in even more menacingly, and as soon as I saw G, a guy with long hair holding a rock said to him, “We know who you are—you’re an AEK fan.”

G told him, “No, I’m not involved,” and then the long-haired guy threw the rock at him, but missed. K and I ran toward Megaloupoleos Street, and two of them chased us. The kid I accidentally stabbed later, and one with a baton. At first, they went after K but couldn’t catch him because he’s skinny and fast; but they caught up with me, since I’m more heavily built.

The guy with the baton tripped me, causing me to fall. When I fell, the guy with the baton hit me on the right knee, then he went to hit me in the head, so I put my arm up—and ended up getting hit on my left arm—and that’s when I yelled at them, ‘You idiots, I’m not a fan,’ the 17-year-old states in his testimony, adding that the 15-year-old was holding the knife; he took it from him and brandished it, not with the intention of injuring him, but to scare him.

“Then the second one pulled a dagger out of his hand, but it fell to the ground. I grabbed it before he could pick it up again to protect myself; I stood up, held out my hand with the knife to scare him, and I took a step forward while he took one step back, causing him to come into contact with the knife and injuring him somewhere in the upper abdomen.

I didn’t want to hurt him, and I thought that by holding out my hand with the knife, I would scare him and he would leave. When he got hit, he took a step back, lifted his shirt, and I saw him covered in blood. I was wearing a black sweatshirt with “Ultras” written on the front in yellow letters. I threw the knife into a green trash can on the next corner, between Kremou Street and the previous alley.”

He then describes his actions after the crime, saying that he learned from TikTok that the victim had been seriously injured.

“I was terrified and walked home. I called my best friend, told her what had happened, and we met at the 14th Junior High School in Kallithea, which is near my house. Later on TikTok, I saw that someone had been seriously injured, and I realized it was because of me. I got home around 2:00 a.m., and I didn’t fall asleep until just before 4:00 a.m. because I kept thinking about what a stupid thing I’d done.

In the morning, when I came downstairs, my mom woke me up and asked, ‘What happened? Why is the police downstairs looking for you—someone’s dead.’ I told her what had happened, and then she read about it on the news. As soon as I told my mom, I went down to the police,” the 17-year-old emphasized, concluding his statement.