One of the most notorious criminals currently held in Greek prisons was at five o’clock in the morning on Sunday at a beach bar in Anavyssos . Not a fugitive. On regular leave from Domokos Prison! And a few minutes later, in the parking lot of the business, shots were fired.
According to the latest information, the Albanian convict Alket Rizaj , the former accomplice of Vasilis Paleokostas , is allegedly involved in the bloody incident. His identification resulted from the analysis of video footage from security cameras, which was examined by the police officers who took charge of investigating the case during the operation on Athens-Sounio Avenue.
The story, as it turns out from the cross-examination of the evidence, begins with something trivial. While most of the people had already left, the owner turned down the music. Then Rizai, who was in the place with two of his friends , went out into the parking lot and turned up the music in the car. The owner reprimanded them, fearing that the neighbors would call the police.
The remark was enough to spark a fight . Rizai reportedly reached for a gun, when an armed Afghan employee emerged from the store and fired at the rioters. The bullets ricocheted off the store, wounding two other employees.
The police officers of the Immediate Action who arrived first did not find anyone at the scene. Only two shell casings and blood stains . The picture was completed when they were informed by the Kalivia Health Center that a 20-year-old Greek man with a glass fragment wound to the ankle and a 41-year-old Pakistani man with a bullet wound to the calf had gone there. Both stated that they were employees of the business, but they gave different versions of the incident, as did the owner.
The Albanian convict and his two friends got into the car and disappeared before the police arrived. It is believed that the employee who shot him also fled in an unknown direction, and is being sought . The only person who has been arrested so far is the owner of the beach bar, on charges of false testimony .
In addition to the camera footage, authorities are attempting to use the testimonies of suspects and witnesses and the findings of the crime scene to determine precisely who fired the shots, how many shots were fired, and what each person’s role was in the fight. The fact that all those involved gave divergent versions makes the video footage the most reliable element of the case file.
The case, however, raises a question that goes far beyond the limits of a nightly episode. The status of permits for prisoners with serious criminal records. Rizai is not just any name on the criminal record. He is a person connected to some of the most high-profile cases of recent decades, and the fact that he was found at dawn in a store in Attica, in an incident with shootings and injuries , can hardly be treated as an isolated misfortune. Permits are a planned institution with a penitentiary purpose, but precisely for this reason, the assessment of the dangerousness of each beneficiary is the most critical point in the process. And at this point, as this particular night shows, something went wrong.
