Kostas Karousakis: The creepy description of Nikos Komtzis’ crime before his eyes

Kostas Karousakis who died this morning was an eyewitness to one who marked the country. The night that he killed 3 people with a knife and injured 7 others. Kostas Karousakis died at the age of 81, with his daughter Helen, making known the sad news with a Facebook post. The death of the folk singer brought to mind some of the most discussed criminals in Greece in the 20th century. The night Nikos Koemtzis killed three people with a knife for an order. Kostas Karousakis was in those dramatic minutes on the night center track. Years later, the singer who died this morning had described the crime that occurred before his eyes. “This night is not forgotten no matter how many years pass. He was a February of ’73, Halloween, Saturday night, at the store (“The Athens Fairy” in Kipseli) did not fall pin. I was finishing the first part of my program when a group of six arrived. Three men, three women. They sat in front but corner, next to the staircase leading to the dressing rooms. At some point Koemtzis’ brother asks me to sing Cotton’s “Bergies”. I first played the sucker. In the meantime, I see the women of the group leaving and only the men left. He didn’t like that. Koemtzis insisted: “Play the “Bergies” for my brother to dance,” he says. “I don’t know the song” I answer to him to avoid him. But because I saw his persistence, I begged Takis Athanasiadis, who worked together, to say so. Of course it wasn’t easy getting so many people off the track. He went up to dance with his brother Koemtzis and others danced. I heard the voices, I looked to see what was going on and I saw him pull out a knife and stab people,” says Kostas Karoutsakis and continues: “On the track the blood ran river. On my way out, a friend of mine pushes me aside to protect me because Koemtzis was yelling: “Where is Karousakis to slaughter him.. A couple of days after we reopened the store, it was full. We wanted to work and people were coming to see where the murder took place,” he said to the Nation himself. The path of Kostas Karousakis over the years Kostas Karousakis had mediated the folk song in the 1970s and 1980s and recently had serious health problems. He left his last breath today at the age of 81. Kostas Karousakis was born in Chios and was a singer, songwriter and was a businessman of his own nightclub. He had worked with the greatest names of the artistic firmament and everyone respected him for his artistic course. In 1974 he had opened his own nightclub and many folk singers and singers of the time and many other artists who were then at the beginning of their career. Among them Rena Violanti, Antypas, Katerina Stanissi, Naya Troni, Pitsa Papadopoulou, Kiki Asimakopoulou, Christina Alexopoulou, Marina Vlahaki, Kostas Kollias, Spyros Donaxas, the ballet of Errica Broyer, Teris Chrysos, Angela Demetriou and many others… His daughter, Helen early on followed his footsteps in the song, choosing a more light genre of music.