Shock and disgust, cause the scenes of the brutal and cowardly beating of a 45-year-old metro station manager by thugs, inside the station of Homonyms.
The attack took place at noon on Wednesday, 13/01/21, on a metro train, during the journey from Anthoupolis towards Omonia. Specifically, two young people who were not wearing a mask and also had their feet up on the opposite seats came to the attention of the employee. At his polite request that they comply with the hygiene rules and behave properly, the two young people insulted him.
Then - and according to statements by the stationmaster in Monastiraki, Akis Pastras, in a news broadcast - , the train arrived at the station of Omonia, where all 3 (the employee and the 2 unknown persons) disembarked. They then waited patiently for the platform to empty of people and for the train to depart and then attacked the 45 year old, threw him to the ground and began to beat him with brutal fury (with kicks and punches) on all parts of his body before fleeing.
The stationmaster was rushed to hospital and subsequently discharged, with «medals», broken ribs and two fractures. According to Mr. Pastra, similar incidents occur on an almost daily basis in the metro, with the result that workers there now feel a strong sense of «the danger and the threat», as he said.
According to the victim's own testimony, the two brazen men acted with a plan and took him by surprise, hitting him in the back. The authorities believe that the young men are probably marked and are turning their research in that direction. The footage from the station's cameras has been sent to the forensic laboratories, while police are also looking for visual footage from cameras outside the metro.
For his part, the managing director of STASY, Nikos Hαιρέτας, made reference to the fact that there is security in the metro but not at every point.
At the same time, he said that there is a permanent police force stationed at the Metro station, and expressed his dismay at the incident. «We are shocked by what happened.».
Finally, he underlined that the security measures last year in the Metro, noting that «we are working on a new security plan with the Ministry of Citizen Protection».
«They will be arrested»
The unprecedented in its ferocity incident, mobilized the reflexes of the Minister of Civil Protection, Michael Chrysochoidis, as well as the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Kostas Karamanlis.
In a statement, the Ministry of Civil Protection shortly after the release of the video, took a stand on the brutal beating of the stationmaster by mask deniers in the Omonia metro, stressing, among other things, that the perpetrators of the attack on the employee of the STASY will be arrested.
«Today, Wednesday 13 January, two young men behaved like animals to the station master of the metro station of Omonia. On remarking that they were not wearing masks, they spat on him, swore at him and beat him hideously. He is in hospital. They will be arrested. They will be brought to justice,» the statement said.
