The Greek “Butterfly” speaks to ProtoThema: Where the 125 million drachmas from the Kalambaka heist went

In the aged Trikala situation wherever the Tsitsanis Museum is present housed, the “Greek Butterfly” Costas Samaras returns to wherever helium was held for a riveting interview. Now, having near his amerciable beingness behind, helium works arsenic a photojournalist, carrying a way that looks similar thing retired of a movie script.

The caller “THEMA Uncut” finds him crossing the threshold of situation again, this clip not arsenic a prisoner, but arsenic the narrator of a beingness spent successful illegality and marked by successive escapes In a confession without filters to Frisos Drakodidis, Samaras unfolds his travel successful the satellite of illegality, shedding airy connected chartless aspects of his actions and the relationships that marked him.

A abstracted section is his transportation with the Paleokosta brothers, with him describing their collaboration and revealing details of the robbery astatine the National Bank of Kalambaka successful June 1992, which netted them 125 cardinal drachmas, a robbery that near an indelible mark.

Of peculiar involvement is what helium says astir Vassilis Paleokosta, who remains wanted with a cardinal euro bounty, and Nikos Paleokosta, who precocious passed away, outlining the narration betwixt them down the headlines.

The “Greek Butterfly” besides talks astir the toughest criminals helium met successful prison, revealing who helium considered the astir unsafe and why, portion describing successful item the methodology they utilized successful their robberies. Finally, helium does not hesitate to separate which flight was the easiest and which the astir hard of his life, events that established him arsenic 1 of the country’s best-known escapees.