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Reuters
21 hours ago
- Reuters
Ex-wife, four men appear in Greek court over killing of UC Berkeley professor in Greece
ATHENS, July 21 (Reuters) - Five people suspected of involvement in the killing of a University of California at Berkeley professor in Athens earlier in July appeared in a Greek court on Monday to respond to charges over the slaying, lawyers said. The five included the ex-wife of the academic, a 43-year-old Polish national. According to a confidential police document seen by Reuters, the professor was shot in the chest and the back on July 4 in Athens' northeastern suburb of Agia Paraskevi. Police found six bullet shells at the crime scene. Some of the suspects escaped in a luxury car, according to video footage examined by the police as part of an investigation that led to the issuance of arrest warrants. The professor's Greek ex-wife, who has denied any wrongdoing, her Greek partner, and three other people - one Bulgarian and two Albanian nationals - were arrested last week. "She is innocent," said the ex-wife's lawyer, Alexandros Pasiatas, expressing certainty that the evidence to emerge from the main investigation will prove that she was not involved. Greek authorities have not released the names of the individuals alleged to be involved in the incident and the charges have not been officially disclosed. The woman's partner has confessed to shooting him, according to police officials. She is accused of moral complicity and the rest of the detainees are accused of assisting the perpetrator, one of the officials said. The weapon used in the killing has not been found. A prosecutor is expected to decide on Monday whether the suspects will be freed or remain in custody during the main investigation, and pending trial.
New York Times
4 days ago
- New York Times
5 Charged in U.C. Berkeley Professor's Murder in Greece, Including His Ex-Wife
Five people have been arrested by the Greek authorities in the July 4 murder of a well-known University of California, Berkeley, professor, including his ex-wife and her current boyfriend, the police said. The suspects made their first appearance in court on Thursday on charges of intentional homicide in the shooting of Przemyslaw Jeziorski, 43, who taught quantitative marketing at the Haas School of Business and was born in Poland. The police did not name any of the suspects, including Mr. Jeziorski's ex-wife, whose lawyer, Alexandros Pasiatas, told the Greek media that his client had no involvement in the killing. He also denied that the former spouses were having custody issues. Mr. Pasiatas did not immediately respond on Thursday to a request for comment. Neither did Ermis Papoutsis, a lawyer for the ex-wife's boyfriend, who told the Greek media that his client had 'accepted responsibility' for the murder, without elaborating. While visiting Agia Paraskevi, a northern suburb of Athens, Mr. Jeziorski, who was known as Przemek, was approached by an attacker during the afternoon and shot in the chest and back, the Greek police said. At the time of his murder, Mr. Jeziorski was seeing his two young children and making legal arrangements for future visitation, something his ex-wife, who is Greek, had tried unsuccessfully to block him from doing, officials said. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
