Self-styled ‘monk’ charged in Thessaloniki dog attacks
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A 50-year-old man, who has declared he is a monk living in a cell on Mount Athos, was prosecuted on Monday for the felony of abusing animals following his arrest, after a complaint that he attacked stray dogs with a knife in Thermi, a suburb of Thessaloniki.
The defendant, a Serbian national, appeared before a judicial investigator in the northern port city.
According to the case file, witnesses described the attacker as a man with a beard who tried to injure the dogs.
Being examined by officers of the Thermi police precinct, the 50-year-old reportedly declared that he is a monk and that he lives in a cell on Mt Athos.
