One year after the murder of a 19-year-old in Thessaloniki over a sports dispute, “a call for a society that does not allow violence in sports arenas, in sports, and among our children is still timely,” SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras said in a post on social media on Tuesday.

The party leader toured Lagadas in the metropolitan area of Thessaloniki earlier and the spot where the college student was murdered. In his post, Tsipras referred to the ongoing trial of the group of sports fans accused of killing Alkis Kampanos and injuring two of his friends early on February 1, 2022 after a game between PAOK and AEK. He described the prosecutor’s proposal that all 12 are found guilty “a slap in the face for those who ended a young person’s life so violently and unprovocatively.”

Tsipras added however that “beyond justice, it’s up to us to condemn on a daily basis behaviors that promote fanaticism.

Thessaloniki mixed jury court prosecutor Kyriaki Kliampa said on Tuesday that the attackers of Kampanos – aged, according to media, from 21 to 26 – should be found guilty of murder, as they planned the 40-second attack on him carefully and were “armed to the teeth”. 

Source: ANA-MPA