Korydallu Prisons: Prisoners were planning hostage escape

All the authorities are considering the reason for the reason for the weapon found during the ELAS investigation, in a wing in the Korydallu prisons.

The investigation was conducted on Sunday morning by police officers of the Department of Brokers of the Organized Crime Management Department, who had information that a group of detainees are planning a escape, probably with a hostage to a prison official.

Korydallu Prisons: About Escape Plan

The plan involves dozens of prisoners of various nationalities. According to EL.AS, 20 prisoners of the penitentiary shop were arrested for – as a case -by -case – infringement of weapons, drugs and law on social peace in combination with moral instruction.

According to ERT, they are, originally from Turkey, Albania and Greeks who had made the partnership, and police officers of the blackmailers have exploited the information that they were planning an attempt to escape with the possibility of holding it as a host -reactionary officer.

Questions about how the gun was found in prisons

The preliminary investigation has been undertaken by the Organized Crime Management Directorate, and there are many questions about how the weapon was found in the prisons.

It is recalled that during the cells on the cells of this wing, police found a fully functional pistol, with a magazine and more than 10 bullets inside, a small amount of drugs and other objects that should not normally be in prison such as mobile phones, chargers, handsfree.

The announcement of ELAS

« The organized crime management Directorate was held in the early hours of Saturday, April 5, 2025, a business on a wing of the Korydallos Prison Store, during which – among other things – pistol and cartridges were identified.

In particular, police officers of the Department of Prosecutors, with the assistance of the Operational Teams of the above Directorate, carried out research into a public cell, where they found and confiscated inside the electrical device:

• pistol,
• magazine with -15- cartridges,
• Improvised paper packaging, containing a quantity of sedative drug, total weight -0.8 -grams, in a cigarette pack,
• mobile phone with SIM card, mobile phone charger and pair of wireless headphones.

In this context, -20 were arrested by the penitentiary shop for – as a case -by -case – infringement of weapons, drugs and law on social peace in combination with moral instruction.

The weapon seized will be sent to the Criminal Investigations Division for further laboratory examination, while the relevant case file will be filed. « 

Weapon, magazine, mobile found in a wing in Korydallu prisons – see pictures

The device that was hidden the gun

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Questions about how the gun was found in a wing of prisoners

EL.AS Image source

Weapon, magazine, mobile bullets and the device that was hidden the weapon