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Greek police arrest five over killing of UC Berkeley professor in Athens
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Posted on July 17, 2025
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2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Greek police arrested five people over the killing of a UC Berkeley professor in Athens. The suspects include the ex-wife and her partner, who confessed to the crime.
ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek police have arrested five people over the killing of a University of California at Berkeley professor who was shot dead in an Athens suburb earlier in July, police said.
The professor's ex-wife, who has denied any wrongdoing, her Greek partner, and three other people - one Bulgarian and two Albanian nationals - were arrested on Wednesday evening over the incident, a police official said on Thursday.
The woman's partner has confessed to shooting the academic, a 43-year-old Polish national, according to the official. The rest of the detainees are accused of assisting him. The weapon used in the killing has not been found.
The suspects were expected to respond to the charges, which have yet to be disclosed, this week. Greek authorities have not released the names of the individuals alleged to be involved in the incident.
The professor was shot in the chest and the back on July 4, in the northeastern suburb of Agia Paraskevi, according to a confidential police document seen by Reuters.
Police later found six bullet shells and a shotgun cartridge at the crime scene, the document said. Some of the suspects escaped in a luxury car, according to video footage collected by the police as part of the investigation.
They were later detained by police acting on arrest warrants.
(Reporting by Yannis Souliotis and Renee Maltezou; Writing by Angeliki Koutantou, Editing by William Maclean)
Five individuals were arrested, including the professor's ex-wife, her Greek partner, and three others, one Bulgarian and two Albanian nationals.
The professor was shot in the chest and back on July 4, according to police reports.
Police discovered six bullet shells and a shotgun cartridge at the scene of the crime.
The charges against the suspects have yet to be disclosed, but they are accused of assisting in the murder.
Police acted on arrest warrants and detained the suspects, who had initially escaped in a luxury car.
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