Alkis Kampanos: Syssomos Mars seeks justice for the murdered friend of the group

The case of the murder of the 19-year-old fan of Mars, arrives today (10.01.2025) before the Mixed Court of Appeals of Thessaloniki which is called upon to finally reflect the judgment of Justice. Eighteen months after the primary court’s decision to kill – with fan motives – his friend, Alki Kampanou, the twelve young PAOK fans will sit at the court stand. CORVERSE We recall that after the verdict of the Thessaloniki Mixed Orcotian Court, these fans returned to prison, seven of them having been sentenced with the sentence of life imprisonment and additionally with perennial penalties as co-conspirators in manslaughter with potential deceit and the remaining five with temporary prison sentences as simple accomplices in the same act. However, the trial, if its opening is declared today, will be subject to requests for postponement to be examined by the judges, will begin for most defendants on a zero basis, without the Court being bound by the verdict of the judges of the first degree. This is because the head of the Thessaloniki Appeals Prosecutor Nikos Kallidis appealed against the conviction, asking for greater penalties to be imposed. CORVERSE Considering the decision to turn the charge into a manslaughter with a possibility of deceit to be incorrect, the senior prosecutor considered that the defendants should be convicted of manslaughter with direct deceit, such as the initial prosecution. In addition, for three of them he felt that they should not be convicted of complicity, but one for moral insinuation in manslaughter with direct deceit and the other two for accessory to the same homicide with direct deceit. The appeal does not touch two of the defendants and practically only for them does the principle of not making their position worse. In addition to the 19-year-old Alki’s murder arm, the indictment includes the acts associated with the attack against his two friends during the same bloody episode that occurred at dawn on February 1, 2002, in the area of Harilaou Thessaloniki. As expected, Mars stands on the side of Alkis Cabanou’s family, which is also seen through the posts of FC, OEM and Amateur in social media. Unlike the primary court, in the benches of the advocates in support of the charge will not sit this time the well-known criminalist Alexis Kouyas, as he announced in his written statement.