A 46-year-old man was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the murder of a 50-year-old man during a fight between them outside a gas station in Analipsi, Thessaloniki.
The motive for the murder, committed in July last year, appears to have been the victim’s suspicion that the defendant was flirting with his partner.
The judges, principals and jurors, judged the 46-year-old man, guilty of manslaughter, in a calm state of mind, granting him the mitigating factor that he was motivated to act by the victim’s prior misconduct. After the court’s verdict, he returned to prison.
What he argued in his apology
In his defense, the 46-year-old man claimed that he acted in self-defense because the victim made a threatening movement against him, hitting him with his hands and keys. “He threatened me, blackmailed me, cursed me…,” he said, describing incidents that preceded the event in question. During the fight that broke out outside the gas station, he said he tried to calm the 50-year-old man. “I raised the gun to scare him, I shot to intimidate him,” he added. During the evidentiary procedure, video was shown from a local security camera that captured the entire incident.