A total of seven people have been remanded in custody so far for the bloodshed in Vorizia of Heraklionwith the Authorities deciding to transfer everyone to different prisons in Mainland Greecefor security reasons.
According to his information Cretalivethe three brothers Fragiadakiswho were deemed temporary detainees after their apologies last Sunday, have already been transferred out of Crete. They are the 27-year-old, in whose house the improvised explosive device exploded, his 29-year-old brother and the younger one, who is serving his military service.
As of the previous week, they had been transferred off the island, to the prisons Korydallou and Larisathe 25-year-old Fragiadakis brother and their 30-year-old cousin — the first to be injured and remanded in custody immediately after the bloody incident.
It is expected that both incarcerated by the family will be transferred to different penitentiary institutions outside Crete Kargaki: the 43-year-old son-in-law of Fanouris and a 48-year-old relative of his. The process of their apologies was summarily concluded. The 43-year-old exercised his right to remain silent, while the 48-year-old filed an apologetic statement, claiming that he was not holding a weapon and he was not involved in the fight.
The key testimony in the massacre
The deposit of one is considered particularly decisive 65-year-old eyewitness and his wife, who happened to be in Vorizia, on their way to Zaros, at the moment when the killing spree broke out. The man does not belong to either family and, as he told the police, he escaped by a few inches the death.
“If he was ten points higher, he would have found me in the stomach and now we wouldn’t be talking here,” he reportedly testified.
His testimony is considered crucial, as he describes persons and scenes at the core of the episodewhile it was allegedly given on the afternoon of the same day—November 1, when the tragedy occurred.
“Everybody was shooting the black peasant”
The witness described that, as he was crossing the main road of the village, he saw about 15 people concentrated on the right side of the road. At the same time, one black farm vehicle with tinted windows was moving at high speed towards them.
“When the black rural vehicle reached the level of the crowd, I saw guns raised and fired at the vehicle. I could definitely make out a Kalashnikov, by the distinctive sound, and four or five other weapons, one of which was a “snap-snap” carbine. The rest must have been pistols,” he said.
He describes that, frightened, he tilted his body on the steering wheel and developed speed to move away, while at the same time he saw a woman — the 56-year-old Evangelia Fragiadakis— to she falls deadwearing a colorful brown dress. Next to her, a man looked injured and kneeling in the street.
“Before she fell down, she had raised her hand and was pointing towards the opposite balconies,” the witness described.
“I didn’t see them shooting from the black car”
According to his testimony, the shooting continued 2-3 minutesstopped temporarily and resumed a short time later. Although he did not see if they were shooting through the black rural, he thinks possible that there was an exchange of fire:
“I didn’t find anything like that. But I assume that there was an exchange, because those who were shooting were on foot and were not shooting at each other. Everyone was shooting at the black car.”
He concluded by saying that there were spectators in the balconies, but cannot confirm if they actively participated in the incident.
This deposit is considered nodal for the reconstruction of the events and has strengthened the work of the Authorities in search for truth for the murderous clash that shocks the whole of Crete.
Inquiries are ongoing, while a strong police presence remains in the village as the local community continues to heal from the bloody incident.