Police are seen outside the building where 73-year-old defense attorney Stavros Georgiou kept his office, in the downtown Athens district of Agios Panteleimonas, in the early hours of Wednesday. [InTime News]
Police in Athens have arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of prominent criminal defense lawyer Stavros Georgiou, whose body was found late on Tuesday in his office in the central Agios Panteleimonas district.
The suspect, identified as a 28-year-old Egyptian man, reportedly confessed to investigators that he had met the 73-year-old lawyer before the incident and later accompanied him to his office, where a physical altercation resulted in Georgiou’s fatal injuries.
Authorities said the suspect was in Greece illegally after his asylum application was rejected, and was also wanted under a 2024 arrest warrant in a separate case involving the alleged sexual abuse of a minor.
Georgiou was found dead Tuesday night by his daughters at his office in a building on Tritis Septemvriou Street after they had been unable to reach him for hours.
