Greek Police (EL.AS) have reportedly identified the man who allegedly conveyed threats targeted at the Maria Karystianou and her son. Karystianou is the most prominent relative of a victim who died in the February 2023 Tempi train collision, losing her daughter.
Police said they were led to the man, a retired court appellate level jurist, through video footage at a café where he met with Karystianou, having arrived with another woman. She was later identified as an attorney. Karystianou was accompanied by her companion.
The man has now been summoned for question by the organized crime unit.
Karystianou, who gained nationwide recognition in Greece as the president of an association representing some victims of the train disaster, said the man told her to “be careful”, a phrase that she inferred as a threat.
Karystianou reported the meeting to police and cited what she said were threats, without however naming the name and his companion.
The man identified in the video was scheduled to give a statement to police.
On Friday, an attorney representing the man, in statements to local media, said his client never “conveyed” any threats towards Karystianou and has never heard anything ominous in reference to the former.
The jurist’s lawyer also left open the possibility of his client suing Karystianou for making a false statement, as he claimed.
