Mafia-Style Execution of a Retired Boxer in Athens
Greece’s police announced that a 39-year-old retired boxer is dead after a drive-by shooting on Monday morning in southern Athens, in what appears to be a mafia-style execution.
Tasos Berdesis, a former Greek champion, was shot on Andrea
Papandreou Street in Vari. Investigators say Berdesis was shot several times
while sitting in the front passenger seat of a vehicle.
He was dead before help arrived.
The victim had participated in the popular TV reality show
Survival Secret which he won a few years ago.
Police sources say that he was well known for his
connections to crime bosses. The shooting appears to be the latest murder in an
on-going gangland feud.
In a separate incident, a 32-year-old Albanian national was
shot dead in a coffee shop in Sepolia, west of Athens, on Sunday evening.
Mafia style executions on the rise in Greece
Last April, one of Greece’s top crime reporters, Giorgos
Karaivaz, was gunned down by a pair of masked men who pumped ten bullets into
the crime reporter’s head, neck and left palm, leaving him dead in a pool of
blood outside his home, in the suburb of Alimos, south of Athens.
The murder was the first assassination of a journalist in
the European Union since the 2018 murder of investigative reporter Jan Kuciak
in Slovakia.
Many people in Greece instantly remembered another grim day;
July 19, 2010, when another prominent Greek journalist, Socrates Giolias, fell
dead from the gunshots of u
A substantial number of Greek organized crime groups are
centered in Athens. However, many other (semi) organized groups operate
throughout other cities, and even villages.
Criminal clans can have their origins from all over Greece:
Mafia groups in the bigger cities are especially involved in racketeering, the
illegal smuggling of oil, money laundering, weapon and drug trafficking as well
as murder.
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