Increasingly shocking developments in the investigation into the deaths of elderly people in private nursing home in Chania, following all seven arrests (3 men and 4 women) made today as part of a major investigation.
What reveals the case file are frightening, as those arrested are accused of formation and membership of a criminal organisation, which has been active for at least a dozen years and is allegedly responsible for dozens of food deaths, with initial reports suggesting that 80 deaths are under the microscope and that the number could exceed a hundred.
The seven arrested are charged with intentional homicide with possible malice aforethought, but also for manslaughter and attempted manslaughter by omission. The investigation is also expected to focus on financial evidence of suspected misappropriation of property of elderly people.
All of them were taken to the investigating magistrate, where they requested and received a deadline to apologise on Friday and Saturday.
As of early Wednesday morning the police, after issuing the relevant arrest warrants, raided the homes of those involved and proceeded to arrest them.
These are two doctors, nurses and the co-owners of the structure, who are expected within the day to be brought before an investigator and prosecutor, in order to apologize.
Recall that the survey, which originally focused on deaths of older people from the beginning of 2020 to March 2021, has now been extended backwards to cover the period from May 2009 to May 2020.
According to reports, the case file includes over 80 deaths in the first year and a half alone, when data were requested from the registries and hospitals, while after the expansion of the investigation the number of deaths may reach hundreds.
The tangle of revelations about the conditions of residence in this nursing home began to unravel last April, following complaints by former employees of the facility about torture and mistreatment of the elderly in the facility, while based on these complaints the exhumation of a woman from Kissamos, who died there, was ordered.
