Greek police interviewed five people in the UC Berkeley professor murder

Greek police interviewed five people in the UC Berkeley professor murder

Athens, Greece -the Greek police interrogated five people in connection with the murder of UC Berkeley Professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski. The respected scientist was shot in Athens on July 4, while visiting his children and participating in a family hearing to the question of custody.

Investigations run

Details of the incident

Jeziorski, 43 years old, was a professor of marketing at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. In a residential area of Athens he was hit in the neck and chest several times in a residential area and still succumbed to his injuries at the scene. The perpetrator, a masked man, approached the victim on foot and suddenly opened the fire. Seven cartridges of a 9mm pistol were secured at the scene.

statements by witnesses

eyewitness reported a masked man in black who approached the professor. A witness told local media that she heard about six shots and saw the perpetrator fled from the crime scene. The incident occurred near the house of Jeziorski's ex-wife in the suburb of Agia Paraskevi, only one day after the father of two children had taken part in a custody hearing.

family matters and possible motifs

A high -ranking police source that wanted to remain anonymous because it was not authorized to speak publicly about the case, previously said that "all scenarios, including close family members, are examined" and that the murder "signs of a contract killer shop". The police also stated that Jeziorski had no criminal record in Greece.

family and support

The family of Jeziorski started a donation collection to finance the transfer of his remains to his home country of Poland and to maintain legal support in Greece. "Our family is destroyed and we do everything to ensure that justice is produced," said his brother Łukasz Jeziorski on the online donation platform.

heir and legacy

The UC Berkeley expressed her regret in a statement and emphasized that Jeziorski had “a passion for teaching”. In his 13 years at the university, he conveyed more than 1,500 students data evaluation skills. The Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration of UC Berkeley, Jenny Chatman, was deeply affected by the death of Jeziorski, whom she described as the “loved member of our marketing lecturers”.