The 89-year-old man accused of the armed attack at the NFKA and the Court of First Instance was remanded in custody by the investigator and the prosecutor after pleading guilty to three felonies and six misdemeanors.
The elderly man, who on Tuesday morning opened fire at the offices of the EFKA in Kerameikos, wounding one employee, and subsequently at the Court of First Instance where four employees were injured, denies that he intended to kill the five employees. At the interrogation office, he pleaded to the magistrate for his actions, the indignation he felt at the refusal of the competent authorities for several years to recognise his seven years of work in Greece. As he appears to have claimed, he was subjected to disparaging behaviour by the relevant officials to whom he was addressed.
The defendant faces three felonies, the most serious of which is attempted serial murder against the injured employees, and an additional six misdemeanors. According to the case file, the senior citizen organised the attack while immediately afterwards, he took a taxi he hired to Patras, possibly with the intention of travelling to Italy.
