A 30-year-old firefighter has been suspended from duty on suspicion of being involved in a fan riot outside a volleyball stadium near Piraeus last December in which a police officer suffered fatal injuries.
VOLLEYBALL
Olympiakos has returned to the throne of Greek volleyball, completing the domestic double on Monday with its playoff final victory over archrival Panathinaikos.
New evidence has emerged in the investigation into the flare attack on a 31-year-old police sergeant that occurred last week during a volleyball match between local rivals Olympiakos and Panathinaikos in Athens.
The 16-year-old brother of a man who allegedly confessed on Sunday to being responsible for hitting a police officer with the naval flare during a sports-related riot last week has been asked to testify again.
Fan violence at a volleyball match last week again demonstrated that most measures announced in recent years to deal with the phenomenon remain unimplemented, but even those that were have proven ineffective.
A 31-year-old police officer injured with a naval flare during a confrontation with volleyball hooligans on Thursday night remains in critical condition, the Nikaia General State Hospital where he is being treated said on Saturday.
Despite the strict sentences and the announcements, nothing has changed when it comes to the world of hooligans after the serious injury of a riot police officer who was struck in the leg by a naval flare on Thursday.
The 31-year-old police officer injured with a naval flare in a confrontation with volleyball hooligans on Thursday night is in a medically induced coma, his doctors at Nikaia General State Hospital have said.
A Supreme Court prosecutor has ordered the public prosecutor in Piraeus to supervise the investigation into Thursday’s attack by hooligans on police after a volleyball match.
Police have detained 424 suspects following violence in Rentis, Piraeus, during a Thursday night volleyball match between local rivals Olympiakos and Panathinaikos which resulted in severe injuries to a police officer.
A riot police officer is in hospital in critical condition after being attacked with a flare by Olympiakos fans at a volleyball game in Rentis, Piraeus on Thursday night.
Olympiakos has extended its men’s volleyball league title record to 31 trophies after seeing off rival PAOK in the Volley League finals.
Panathinaikos has clinched the league title in men’s volleyball thanks to an emphatic 3-1 win at archrival Olympiakos on Thursday, with a game to spare.
PAOK has just won a third Greek Cup in men’s volleyball in as many years beating Finikas Syrou in Friday’s final.
The Greek men’s national team failed to make the cut for the last 16 of the European Championship, as it lost 3-1 to Portugal on Wednesday in Poland for its fifth loss in as many group games.
Panathinaikos has upset the odds to win its first league title in volleyball in 14 years, just two years after being on the brink of relegation.
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