On Friday, the court order against the ones who were part of the murder of the 11 year old Alex from Verya will come out.

Three years ago – on February 3^rd 2006, the young Alex does not come home in Verya. He disappears at seven o’clock in the afternoon from a main street in the city. Pictures of him are spread around the city and the whole country and the reporter-detective Angeliki Nikoloudi takes the case. She is a host of the TV show “Light in the tunnel,” which deals with investigations for missing people. Soon, the whole country learns about Alex and everybody becomes numb in front of their TV screens, when discoveries start to come out.

On June 2^nd 2006, the police start to dig behind the city-hall in town. They tell Alex’s parents that fine kids have admitted killing their son. Natela’s nightmare – Alex’s mother is still going on and this crime done by children shakes all Greece.

Prosecutor Nikos Karamolengos offers the accusation against the five children to be changed from “premeditated murder” to “assault.” Attorney Pithagoras Yeropoulos announced in front of the court quite the opposite – that “the underage children have planned the murder of Alex.” He is convinced that the five kids – two Greeks, two Albanian, and one Romanian have killed Alex by throwing him on the steps of the square in front of city-hall. And even if he did not die after the fall, he did later on. ““There are adjudicated murder cases, where the victims die 15 months after the attack against them.”

Prosecutor Nikos Karamolengos accepts that Alex has been chased and hit by the children. After that they have taken him to an abandoned house behind city-hall, where they left him without being clear whether he was injured or dead. According to the prosecutor, from that moment on, no one knows what happened.

In his statement, Mr. Karamolengos does not accept the scenario, that two days later the children transferred Alex’s body in a trolley into the river. This is why he asked from Verya’s prosecutor to research whether there is evidence against the five children and against any adult – mostly against the grandfather of one of the Greek boys that he left the helpless child to die in an abandoned house.

“I am disappointed. How do you expect a mother can feel after her child has been murdered?” says Natela, mother of young Alex for Ta Nea newspaper.

After the last court meeting, which took three hours, the statement of the prosecutor “turned everything upside down” and “everything is again at ground zero,” even though four months have passed since the beginning of the trial and 98 witnesses have testified.