Hooligans arrested over officer killing

[Intime News]

In the largest ever operation against fan violence in the country, Attica police proceeded with a barrage of arrests on Monday of Olympiakos club hooligans for their involvement in the fatal injury of the riot policeman Giorgos Lygeridis and in at least 14 more cases. Thirty-one-year-old Lygeridis was fatally struck by a naval flare last December outside a stadium during a volleyball match in Athens.

By Monday evening, the arrests had exceeded 60 while the case file included the names of a total of 150 defendants - all organized Olympiakos fans, some described by police sources as leading members of Gate 7. They are to be charged on a case-by-case basis with incitement and complicity in the killing of the officer.

Some of them were found to have had not only a physical presence but also an organizational role in the attacks on the riot police unit outside the Melina...

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