The news of the disappearance of a young man a few miles outside of Athens , was merely the beginning of a thriller that takes your breath …
Shadows and dread fell over the cottage next to Varis – Koropiou boulevard. In this house was going to stay overnight on Monday, May 5th , Christos Merentitis 36 year old. Few days after the tragedy revealed. In the warehouse his blood was found and a shell of 9 mm gun… Two of his cars were missing.
Tragic irony… The week he disappeared was about to marry his beloved while he was waiting day by day to hold in his arms his first child… The couple lived at Markopoulos Oropos .
The bride’s dream turned into a nightmare… Trying to keep calm she revealed at the “Tunnel” everything that has happened.
Christos Merentitis owns excavator machinery for earthworks. He also owns a musician radio station «Heart 9,42» based at Halkida , which belonged to the family of his fianc?.
Overturning …
During the broadcast a difficult effort took place to fill the gaps , from Monday, May 5th that was the last contact with him until Friday when his blood was found at his cottage . Persistent research of “Tunnel ” brought results. Business owner revealed that on Monday, May 5th he took advance from Christos who wanted to buy a solar water heater . The next morning , Tuesday, May 6th , he went back to the store and gave the remaining money . He was wearing working clothes and looked tired and sleepless. From that time , until the traces of blood were found, is the time that hides the answers.
She saw the blood of her beloved…
The missing man companion spoke to Angeliki Nikolouli.
That morning, Monday, May 5th , Christos left the house saying that he was going to stay overnight his cottage at Agios Ioannis area at Koropi. The next day he planned to go at Paiania for work with a colleague of his. That evening because of her pregnancy Dina lay early and did not speak with him . The next day she called him many times on his mobile but it was switched off. She started to worry. With his father missing and her family went at the housee and realized that something bad had happened . A few days later, on Friday , police opened a small store that was on the estate . The picture they saw took their breath away… Blood of Christos and a shell , revealed the tragedy …
“Tunnel” at the cottage where the thriller was played
Christos family directly declared his disappearance to authorities. When police went to search the cottage, relatives and friends encouraged them to look at a canopy of an old truck that was outside of the estate and Christos used it as a warehouse. The door was locked . Only Christos and a friend knew how to open it . The friend who was present, opened it and everyone that was there at the time faced the harsh reality…
Large amount of Christos blood as it turned out later, had covered even the irons that were at the floor . A crowbar with traces of blood and a shell of 9 mm gun, testified that something bad happened there.
Angeliki Nikolouli went at the country house with the father of the missing and recorded with the camera the location where this incredible thriller took place.
The father of missing Babis Merentitis before the blood of his son was found, had believed that thieves had entered the house. Faced now with this tragic development , he remembered everything that had happened lately to hisson. As he told the journalist Christos was experiencing financial difficulties after being owed money from various jobs he had done .
Together they investigated the neighboring fields with wells. Thorough research in the area has made the police and EMAK team. They spoke with neighbors who tried to remember what happened the night of the disappearance. For hours you could hear loud noise from machinery performing earthworks…. Till dawn, dogs were barking and cars were coming and going in the neighborhood… The missing man on Monday afternoon, May 5th, met at the cottage with a partner. The picture he gave to relatives when they asked him was contradictory …
BMW was found in the parking lot of the Suburban station…
The missing man was using a black BMW car with plate number 7443 YMT , which belonged to a friend, owner of a car workshop.
This car and a professional white Mercedes Atego 815, with the wheel on the right side, were missing from his house when he got lost.
Twelve days after the disappearance, the owner of the workshop Giannis Theodoris was passing ousidet of the parking of the Suburban station of Koropi. Surprisingly he realized that his car which had given to Christos, was parked and locked at the lot. Immediately he informed the police. He spoke to the camera of “Tunnel “ and showed the point where the car was found and now investigating by the forensics . The white track still hasnt been found The witness said to Angeliki Nikolouli that he saw Christos the day he got lost. He talked about the work that he was planning to do the next day with his partner in Paiania.
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