What is wrong with people? ANOTHER beheading!
Filed Under (Greece) by admin on 03-08-2008
Tagged Under : Greece
Police on the Greek island of Santorini have shot and injured a knifeman who decapitated his girlfriend and walked around the streets with her head.
Terrified residents of the popular tourist island barricaded themselves into their homes and called the police.
The suspect, 35, was shot during a dramatic car chase in which he crashed into a motorbike and badly injured the rider and pillion passenger.
The crime is one of the most gruesome in Greece in recent memory.
Ricochet
The man reportedly beheaded his girlfriend, a teacher in her mid-to-late 20s, in the village of Vourvoulos, close to the island’s capital, Thira, and then paraded with the head.
Speaking on Greek television, the local sub-prefect said the man attacked officers who tried to arrest him and slashed one policeman in the face.
The man threw the head into a patrol car and then stole a police jeep and tried to get away.
But after 400m the suspect [...]
