ATHENS: An 89-year-old gunman arrested for wounding 5 individuals in two shootings in Athens on Tuesday (Apr 28) acted in “protest and despair” in opposition to Greek public companies, his lawyer mentioned on Wednesday.
The person opened fireplace with a shotgun at a department of Greece’s EFKA social safety company, wounding an worker within the leg earlier than travelling by taxi to a courtroom constructing the place he fired a number of extra pictures, calmly wounding 4 feminine courtroom clerks.
He was later arrested in a resort within the metropolis of Patras, some 200km from Athens.
“It was an act of protest and despair,” his lawyer, Vassilis Noulezas, informed Reuters.
Noulezas mentioned the person labored for 40 years as an engineer in Chicago and was beforehand hospitalised at a psychiatric clinic in Athens. He had utilized for a supplementary pension in Greece, however his request was rejected, he mentioned.
A public prosecutor on Wednesday charged the person with tried homicide and unlawful possession of a gun.
Citizen Safety Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis late on Tuesday admitted that there have been safety gaps at some courtroom buildings however that Greece was a protected nation general.
EFKA staff walked out on Wednesday to protest over safety after the taking pictures incident, which they mentioned they seen as one other act of “individuals’s frustration” over understaffed public companies.
