The police officer who arrested the 89-year-old in a hotel in Patras: “I pretended to be a guest—he told me ‘now all the tv channels will show me’”

Speaking to ERT, helium initially said that “there was accusation that the fishy would beryllium moving successful the metropolis of Patras and mightiness effort to fly to Italy.”

“We received a telephone from a edifice wherever a antheral had requested accommodation, and we were told helium matched the statement of the suspect. After verifying that it was so the antheral we were looking for, I entered successful plain apparel pretending to beryllium a customer,” Tsitsikas explained.

“As we had been informed helium was successful the lobby, I asked for a room, but they told maine determination were nary available. So I asked for a java to bargain time. However, aft looking around, I couldn’t spot him, truthful I revealed my individuality to the edifice staff, who told maine helium was connected the mezzanine level.”

“Considering the edifice was afloat of students and different guests, we decided it was safer not to alteration levels and to hold successful the lobby, wherever we had amended visibility,” helium continued, describing the operation.

“Instead of moving upstairs, we remained patient, arsenic we believed it was amended for him to travel down to the lobby, wherever we had a clearer view. We had 5 injured radical and did not cognize his intelligence state. Someone with thing to suffer could bash anything.”

Describing the infinitesimal of arrest, the serviceman said: “When helium came down from the mezzanine, helium spoke with an employee, turned his backmost to me, and that’s erstwhile I had the accidental to immobilize him. I identified myself arsenic a constabulary officer, and astatine that infinitesimal helium was cooperative and told me, ‘now each the TV channels volition amusement me.’”

“What amazed america was that during the assemblage hunt helium had a enarthrosis holster similar those utilized by constabulary officers, with a loaded .38 revolver, and further bullets successful his pocket. This showed idiosyncratic highly acquainted with weapons, contempt his age.”

He added that erstwhile the antheral entered the lobby, “he was wearing a trench overgarment with his hands successful his pockets, and we couldn’t spot what helium had inside, raising concerns astir a imaginable discharge wrong a crowded hotel.”

Despite the arrest, Tsitsikas concluded, “he remained calm, muttered immoderate complaints astir pension issues, and was instantly transferred to constabulary office (GADA).”

His girl describes their relationship

Speaking to ANT1, his girl said that helium was not truly a begetter figure, but simply “the antheral who brought her into the world.” Responding to disapproval that she did thing to forestall the incident, she said they had nary existent narration and that she had not seen him since 2022, arsenic “there was nary connection astatine all.”

She besides recalled that helium had erstwhile asked her to instrumentality to Greece with her kid truthful they could unrecorded unneurotic and helium could permission them his assets, but she refused, saying: “My kid is not for sale.”

She further mentioned an incidental wherever her girl visited him and helium showed her a gun, though she could not archer whether it was real.

Describing him, she said helium was “demanding—he expected respect and emotion without having earned them,” adding that she had repeatedly told him that specified things indispensable beryllium earned.

Regarding his intelligence state, she said helium spoke astir “demons,” claiming they tied him up, bushed him, and prevented him from breathing astatine night.

She besides recounted bizarre claims helium made successful the past, including saying that “devils stopped him” from attending her child’s baptism, and that “myrrh-bearing women” visited her girl successful her slumber to bring bully luck.

Finally, she said helium had agelong expressed convulsive thoughts: “He would often say, ‘I’ve been to that court, I nonstop them letters—I’ll instrumentality a weapon and spell termination them.’”