A series of felony and misdemeanor charges were filed by the prosecutor against the elderly perpetrator of the armed attack at the Efka and in District Court yesterday morning.
The prosecution brought against the elderly man involving three felonies and a number of misdemeanors involves:
-attempted serial homicide
-an aggravated case of unlawful carrying of a firearm inside a courthouse
-an aggravated case of unlawful carrying of a firearm weapon
– Criminal possession of a firearm
– Criminal possession of a firearm for a doorway
– Criminal possession of ammunition and cartridges
– Criminal possession of firearms
– Criminal possession of firearms, (knives and replica knives)
-Disturbing the peace with intent to commit a crime
-Disturbing the peace with intent to commit a crime and
-Threatening to commit a crime.
Remember that the 89-year-old man who shot with a shotgun and wounded five people yesterday in two successive attacks at the EFKA Kerameikos and the Athens Court of First Instance was taken to the Evelpidon Courts. The elderly man was arrested in Patras, in possession of a loaded 38 revolver and was taken to the GADA last night. The 89-year-old yesterday morning, with a shotgun, wounded an employee of the NFKA,who remains hospitalized, and then four other employees of the Court of First Instance.
“Desperation and indignation”
In a statement, his lawyer said the 89-year-old spoke of “desperation and indignation” for having armed his hand.
The 89-year-old, in his statement to officers of the Athens Sub-Division for the Investigation and Detection of Crimes, reiterated that the cause of his actions was that he was not vindicated in his long-running dispute with the state for the pension supplement he was seeking for the years he had worked in Greece while receiving pensions from America and Germany.
“I didn’t want to kill,” the 89-year-old reportedly told police. “I just wanted to make noise to make my problem heard. If I wanted to kill I would have killed, but I was shooting on the floor.” This is confirmed by eyewitnesses to the attacks.
The 89-year-old, according to the same sources, was asked if he had intended to go to Strasbourg, as heard yesterday. “I thought about it,” he said, “going and firing a rifle and there at the court.What to go to jail here, what in Europe..”
