New revelations are coming to light about the brutal **murder** that occurred at **Domokos Prison**, with a 43-year-old lifer as the victim, while the chief guard involved in the case is now charged with complicity in murder and is expected to testify tomorrow. The chief guard, who was brought in on Wednesday (18/2), was given a deadline to testify on the coming Friday. His arrest was carried out following a warrant from the investigating magistrate in Lamia, who was not convinced by his initial statements and ordered his arrest and detention. The accused was held at the Police Directorate and then transferred to the courts of Lamia.
Contrary to the chief guard’s statements are what the prison security cameras recorded, along with testimonies from other correctional staff. Now it becomes clear why, as Live News reported, the chief guard is now charged with complicity in the crime, since he said one thing in his first statement, which he later changed, and something else was revealed by the camera footage. The chief guard claimed that everything happened very quickly and he didn’t have time to determine how the perpetrator got the weapon in his hands. The accused chief guard described the events twice. In his first statement he mentioned that he saw the perpetrator shoot the victim twice. In the second, however, he denied it, although he admitted that the crime occurred in front of him.
As it was determined, however, the Bulgarian heavy convict shot the Greek lifer 3 times in a “blind spot” from cameras of the former chief guardhouse of the prison, according to Live News. The chief guard was only one meter away from the victim. Although the chief guard initially mentioned in his first statement that a search had been conducted in the victim’s cell without finding anything suspicious, in the second he denied it. He even mentioned that there was a climate of fear and that it was impossible to search the 43-year-old lifer’s cell.
What the security cameras of Domokos prison showed
The crime occurred on the afternoon of last Sunday (15/2). At 18:49 a security camera shows the perpetrator arriving at the victim’s cell. A minute later the two of them head towards the wing exit. At 18:52 they reach the area of the deputy guardhouse and meet a fellow inmate and the chief guard. At 18:56, the perpetrator, the victim and the chief guard move towards the former chief guardhouse where the crime occurred and one minute before 19:00 in the afternoon, two correctional staff are recorded moving in the corridor with quick steps.
A former inmate at the Domokos detention center described to “Live News” how prisoners go to areas of the correctional facility: “You pass the gate. The gate is a guard who tells you, asks you ‘Where are you going sir?’. ‘Where do you want to go sir?’ and you tell him ‘To the chief guardhouse’. He tells you ‘Wait’. He has the papers… papers for you to go to the chief guardhouse. You don’t go just like that, they see you from cameras.”
Unknown, however, remains who had the weapon inside the prison and how it passed without being detected by the magnetic gates in the wings. Security measures exist but as prison inmates are reported to have stated, the magnetic gates for detecting metal objects often did not function.
The chief guard taught seminars on prison security
The accused chief guard was led to the Lamia courts and was given a deadline to testify tomorrow. He insists that he has no involvement in the crime, but his contradictions raise questions about the role he played in the events.
According to Vasilis Lambropoulos, police correspondent, the chief guard in June 2024 had been appointed to be the one who would teach new correctional staff about detention facility security issues. Additionally, the police correspondent said that according to testimonies, there were other people in the chief guardhouse.
