{"id":7222,"date":"2026-05-25T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:58:00","slug":"this-is-how-the-marinakis-dimitriadis-incident-started-slap-and-unprovoked-attack-by-the-president-of-olympiacos-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7222","title":{"rendered":"This is how the Marinakis-Dimitriadis incident started: slap and unprovoked attack by the president of Olympiacos FC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A serious incident took place before the start of the Euroleague final between Olympiacos and Real Madrid, at the official <b>Telekom Center Athens<\/b>, with the owner of the &#8220;red&#8221; FC, <b>Vangelis Marinakis<\/b>, and the former general secretary of the prime minister, <b>Gregoris Dimitriadis.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to eyewitnesses, Marinakis approached Dimitriadis, who was sitting with his wife, and asked him, as sport-fm.gr, wrote, to approach him to talk to him, in an apparently threatening tone. Dimitriadis stood up and took a step towards him and at that moment <b>the president of Olympiacos FC unprovokedly slapped him<\/b>, causing Dimitriadis&#8217; immediate &#8211; and defensive &#8211; reaction.<\/p>\n<p>The brief scuffle tore the shirt of Marinakis, who initially wore white and shortly afterwards appeared in black.<\/p>\n<p>The entire incident, however, was recorded by the stadium&#8217;s closed-circuit camera system. In order to solve the case, <b>it is <b>considered<\/b> <b>critical that the video be released<\/b>, so that the sequence of events and the role of everyone involved can be accurately captured!<\/p>\n<p>All this is happening while <b>Vangelis Marinakis<\/b> and the management of Olympiacos FC are under trial for the murder of the police officer,<b> Jiorgos Liggeridis<\/b>. Specifically, the members of the leadership team of Olympiacos FC are accused of supporting-financing a criminal organization and inciting sports violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A serious incident occurred before the start of the Euroleague final between Olympiacos and Real Madrid, at the Telekom Center&#8217;s official &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}