Berlin, April 9, 2025—On the fourth anniversary of the assassination of veteran Greek crime reporter Giorgos Karaivaz, the Committee to Protect Journalists and six international media freedom and journalist organizations called for justice for “one of the most serious attacks on journalism in the European Union in recent years.”
Karaivaz was fatally shot outside his home in the capital Athens on April 9, 2021, in what is widely suspected to have been a professional contract killing linked to organized crime groups. In December 2024, an Athens court ruled that Karaivaz was murdered because of his journalistic work. No one has been held responsible for the murder.
The seven organizations urged authorities and prosecutors to “identify, detain, and prosecute all those involved in the killing, from the gunmen to the mastermind,” if necessary, with the assistance of bodies such as the European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol.
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