Heraklion: In the courts the two arrested for the brutal beating of the Greek-Canadian – will apologize Saturday

In the courthouse they were found on Tuesday morning (03.09.2024) the two arrested for the serious injury by the Greek Canadian, Emanuel Kakoulaki, in the city centre about a month and a half ago. The arrested for beating the Greek-Canadian in Heraklion is a 31-year-old from a village of Mylopotamos and a 32-year-old from a region of the municipality of Malevizi. Both had been identified by police officers since the first moment of the bloody episode and were sought all these days by police authorities. Their search came to an end when the two men in the presence of their lawyer surrendered yesterday (02.09.2024) to AT Maleviziu. In the morning they passed the threshold of the judicial great Heraklion to apologize and finally received a deadline for Saturday morning. As the cretapost reports, the two arrested are going to argue before the interrogator that there may have been an altercation and controversy, but do not accept the gravity of the acts attributed to them for attempted homicide. Early in the morning outside the Court Palace of Heraklion relatives of the two men who surrendered had gathered. Members of their families, however, tried to reach 49-year-old Greek-Canadian in order to find a solution and thus withdraw the lawsuit. The chronicle of beating The bloody incident occurred on Tuesday 16 July when the 49-year-old Greek-Canadian was with his 41-year-old partner and his two children (18 and 21 years old) at a bar in Heraklion for entertainment. At the time the tourist family had paid and left the shop there was an incident with the Cretan company, as one of them accidentally burned the 49 year old with the cigarette. The tourist made an observation to the man which was also the occasion for the wild attack to begin, Things got rough with some of the Cretans throwing chairs at him in the head while he got multiple hits. In fact, they attacked both the children and the 49 – year – old companion who bear lighter injuries. The perpetrators then escaped in an unknown direction, while ambulances of the EKAB received the tourist family and transferred it to the Venizelio hospital. The 49-year-old Greek-Canadian brought the most severe injuries, as they had hit him in the head.