Five days after he was arrested in the act on the "Sokratous" street of Athens, after a TT pistol firearm and a quantity of tritol with two lighters were found in the car, in which he was traveling with his partner, the Albanian Armiol Rrasa appeared before the Greek court.
The young man from the village of Gradishte i Divjaka, who has previous criminal records, told the jury that he had the gun and bullets for his own protection due to an old history of revenge.
He also claimed that he did not know that there were explosives in the car, which according to his lawyer belonged to another person.
The 39-year-old said that he thought that the package with explosives had cartridges, while his partner Daniela Luari, who stated that she did not know about the weapon or the tritol, and that she only saw them when the police found them.
After the testimony, she was released on the condition that she appear at the police station once a month, while Rrasa was left in prison while the investigations will continue.
Armiol Rrasa is a person with a criminal record. In Greece, he was sentenced to prison for drug trafficking in 2008 and was released in 2015.
The Greek police are continuing the investigation into the criminal activity of the Albanian couple, while the real reason for keeping the gun and tritol in the car is not known.