Periklis Tahatos, a retired truck driver, went missing with the dog he loved so much and his car, and despite the thorough searches in the area, no trace of him has been found.
His car is a Toyota Corolla, anthracite color with registration number NIX – 5816.
His dog is small, cinnamon colored and hears the name Ioli.
In the house where he lived alone, his food was found intact and his personal belongings and documents, arranged in his room, a fact that worries his relatives.
An information given from Thessaloniki on the show about a car that had been abandoned on a specific road, aroused police and volunteers, who went for an on-site search in the middle of the night to finally find out that it was not the vehicle of the missing person.
“What did they find when they opened the house?”
On the camera of the show, the missing person’s wife and bride spoke about the scene they saw when they opened his house.
“He had the pot with the food ready, it was not premeditated that he would leave the house that day. He had left some of his personal belongings in the bedroom. If he was going somewhere to have a good time, he would have taken them with him. “Only his mobile phones are missing”, said the wife of the missing Vasiliki Tahatos.
Speaking about the bond he had with his dog and the agony of his two children, he said:
“Ever since he retired and became very attached to Ioli, they went everywhere together. “It seems strange to us what happened from there and beyond. Children have the right to know where their father is, they can not rest.”
She appealed to anyone who knows something to call anonymously on the show to help find their man and put an end to their anxiety.
The bride of the unfortunate man Stella Karagianni, who lives in the house opposite, talked to him shortly before his traces disappeared.
“I saw him close the garage door and I asked him how he was, because I knew he had a problem with his leg. I asked him if I needed to get him something and he just asked me for food for Ioli. Shortly afterwards we saw that the car was missing and we thought that it had gone to the doctor. The next day we went to open it for his dog to come out and we were worried when we did not find it. “Squeeze our minds. He did not say he was going somewhere.”
“I froze with what I saw at home…”
The daughter of Marianthi Tahatos, obviously excited, spoke about the circumstances under which her father went missing but also about the investigations that have been done in the area.
“They saw that his car and his dog were missing, so they assumed that he took it with him. He passes several houses to get down to the main road, but no one saw him from there either. A car is not so easy to disappear. Searches were carried out with a volunteer team and we personally helped the police with some points that we indicated to them that he was going with his dog. They also searched Lake Polyphytou for the car. They even came from the port and searched with sonar, but found nothing. We searched all the cameras we could find in all directions, but no one has recorded it. Lately he has been living alone. “When I saw his identity and that all his personal belongings were in the house, I froze.”
“Two of our fellow villagers went missing and nothing was found…”
Friends, acquaintances, but also the doctor of the missing person, who had said that he would visit that fateful day, spoke to the TV crew of “Tunnel”.
“He was a professional driver, in perfect condition. I heard that he left for Ptolemaida that day, but we do not know anything special. It’s very strange what happened and we all wonder where he went and how he disappeared. “A year and a half ago we had another disappearance of this kind, but we did not find anything, neither from the first, nor from Pericles”, said Alexandros Lagiopoulos, a retired doctor, who knew the missing person.
His orthopedist, Costas Giazitzoglou, who had seen him for a minor health problem that afflicted him, said on the show’s camera:
“On the 31st of the month, Pericles came here with a fracture in his right ankle. He needed a splint and his leg to remain immobile. But he did not want to and we made a simple bandage. He seemed a little anxious to me. He did not call me the day he went missing, as they say. “It’s very strange, what can I say, he could ask for help, we would offer it to him.”
A friend and colleague of Pericles also spoke on the show, emphasizing how good a driver he was and that something was bothering him lately.
“We organized all over Greece, he was one of the very good drivers, he knew all the roads from the outside. Now lately he has been a bit upset. It is strange that he got lost in his car. “I am afraid that it took shape and fell into the dam that is deep”, Nikos Darlagiannis stated characteristically.
“They say he is somewhere abroad and is having a good time…”
The missing person’s daughter, who is looking for him anxiously, shares her father’s love for his dog.
“We have had Ioli for about ten years. It is a small cinnamon dog, a little tufted. He basically had love with her, he had her like his grandchildren. We were told that they saw him playing with her in the lake and climbing the mountain. “They were always together, stickers.”
He referred to the day of the disappearance, but also to the possible scenarios for where he may be.
“His brother, who lives in the lower house, saw him getting out of the car and told him to close the gate. “No one has been found inside Serbia to tell us anything.”
He appealed to anyone who saw that day, Sunday, April 3, the slightest thing that could help him find the route he was likely to follow, contact the Authorities or the show.
“It was heard that he went somewhere and is having a good time, that he is abroad, that I wish it were so and that would be the ideal scenario for me, but to leave all your belongings and go have fun with the two mobile phones that have not been opened ever? ”he wondered.
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