Suspicious claims that he “got all out” for the victim’s ex-wife, leaked police confession reveals
On the morning of July 4, an American marketing professor was walking to the house of Athens to pick up his two children. If you encounter a stressful visit, it should be an insignificant one – the couple is obviously in dispute arranging the custody terms.
But Przemyslaw Jeziorski never reached the front door.
According to police, he was shot several times at close range during the day, in this typical quiet, suburban Greek capital neighborhood. Police said Jeziorski died where he fell and his body was seen in the grim photos taken immediately afterwards.
The masked gunman ran away as witnesses rushed towards his help.
The perpetrator was allegedly arrested 12 days later: his ex-wife’s new partner. He told police that the motive: to prevent Jeziorski from taking her child.
“I did everything I could for[her]and our children so that we could live a normal life without problems,” he said, a transcript of his statement to the police after being arrested for premeditated murders and illegal possession and use of weapons.
One of the most prominent aspects of the case is that the so-called perpetrator’s statements to the police have been widely leaked to Greek media, including CNN affiliate CNN Greece. The statements were spoken by a senior police source to CNN, confirmed in a real way that the statement provided clues on how the alleged murders would be carried out, and provided clues about who knows what and when and when. However, there is no key problem to be solved – especially the role of Jeziorski’s ex-wife (if any).
According to Greek police, she is facing accusations of moral accomplices, which she denied, according to the attorney she spoke with CNN. Like all suspects in this case, her identity is known to CNN but cannot be published due to Greek law restrictions.
The so-called confession of the perpetrator and the three suspected accomplices were also leaked to other conflicting accounts in the press, setting up a possible long and highly anticipated trial.
Meanwhile, the killing and consequences shocked the victim’s friends and family, who said Yezowski was a kind and introverted scholar who loved his children.
Jeziorski, 43, is an economist and tenured marketing professor at the HAAS Business School at the University of California, Berkeley, and is nicknamed Przemek or “PJ.” Born in Poland, he moved to the United States in 2004, studying economics and mathematics at the University of Arizona, and then earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
“He is one of the most keen people I’ve ever met,” said Robert Kowalski, a victim friend at Stanford. “He is a good guy, and he is a genius in many ways.”
UC Berkeley professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski took a photo with his friend Robert Kowalski and was in an undated photo. – courtesy of Robert Kowalski
Jeziorski “has a passion for teaching” and taught data analytics skills to more than 1,500 graduates and doctoral students in his 13 years at the University of California. His research work focuses on emerging markets, which has led him to conduct field research around the world, and Berkeley describes him as “a leading expert in quantitative marketing, industrial organization and digital market economics.”
Jenny Chatman, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Business, said she was “heartbroken” by Jeziorski’s death, describing her as “a beloved member of our marketing faculty.”
Guardianship war
According to Kowalski, Jeziorski met his ex-wife – a Greek national – in San Francisco in 2013 and got married the following year. The couple’s twins were born soon.
In 2015, the couple co-founded a startup called KeyBee, a short-term rental property management platform.
It is unclear what caused their relationship to break down, but Kovalsky told CNN the couple broke up around 2020 after moving to Greece during the alliance pandemic.
According to the victim’s brother’s statement, their children are dual American and Polish citizens. According to the ex-wife lawyer, the children applied for Greek citizenship and are awaiting a decision on it.
According to California court records, Jeziorski filed for divorce in June 2021.
This seems to be a factor in the years-long custody battle, where they ended up living in Greece with their mothers and stipulated that their father, Jeziorski, could take the child for one month each summer.
Przemyslaw Jeziorski’s friends posted photos with his twin 10-year-olds living in Greece with his mother. -Chemtai Mungo
According to Kowalski, Jeziorski asked his children during a custody battle to attend an American school in Greece so that they could one day attend high school or college in the United States.
However, according to the principal’s suspect’s boyfriend’s statement to the police, his ex-wife is afraid of losing the child soon.
“We were worried that he (Jeziorski) would eventually take the kids completely. It was completely over (my girlfriend), and he liked them too much. This summer, Puzmek wanted to bring the kids to the United States. But (my girlfriend) disagreed, so she went back to court with Przemek, so according to Sustects tersimeys tersimony Transcripttimony Transcript, she said.
On July 3, a custody judgment ruled that Yezowski was indeed allowed to take care of his children for one month.
Confession
The suspect told police: “A month and a half ago, I decided to end our once and for all torture,” the suspect added that it was a “good opportunity” as Jeziorski attended a custody hearing in Athens.
The statement details how the suspect said he bought the pistol a month ago and asked a friend from Bulgaria to help him “find Przemek and scared him so he would not take our children away.”
It all started with Nafplio, a coastal city about two hours from Athens, “so I’m there” and his phone will “leave traces.”
The suspect said that he, his friend and two other people – a man from Albania and a teenager – paid to Athens and waited on the same street with his ex-wife’s house, and the suspect said he knew Jeziorski was coming to pick up the child that afternoon. “I approached him and shot him a few times, but I don’t remember how many times,” he said.
According to the statement, the men rented a gray Porsche Kayan as an evasion car, but the murder suspect told police that his accomplices left him at the scene after seeing him shoot the victim.
Police said Jeziorski died at the scene and seven bullet shells were found after a masked gunman shot him in the neck and chest.
The three unnamed individuals allegedly provided assistance, with two Albanian nationals and one Bulgarian national facing accusations of accomplices, police announced Thursday. Greek police sources told CNN on Thursday that the alleged accomplices, one of whom is a minor, admitted that they were involved in the murder. CNN cannot reach lawyers for those men.
Greek police led the murder of UC Berkeley professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski on Thursday morning in court Thursday morning with her new boyfriend and three other allegedly involved in the July 4 shooting of Polish educators. CNN adds Blur to this image. -CNN Greece
“My client has admitted his behavior, but from your simplicity, it’s not an organized plan. His accomplices only know how to scare him (the victim) so he’ll stay away from the kids,” Emmis Papoutsis, the attorney for the main suspect, told CNN. “(Ex-wife), his partner, knows nothing about it.”
“My client has come to me for advice in the past. He said his partner’s ex-husband had serious alcoholism problems and he and his mother were worried about allowing the child to contact. He wanted to see if he could legally restrict access.” “Now, after what happened, he was completely vandalized. We will ask for a psychiatric examination because he had some problems in the past.”
Jeziorski’s friends denied his allegations of alcohol abuse.
On Friday, CNN Greece received police testimony from Bulgaria from its so-called accomplices, which contradicted the alleged gunman. In this account, the alleged accomplices claimed that the victim’s ex-wife “was organized the whole thing.”
He described his friend, the perpetrator, who obtained the gun and asked, “I found some people taking him to Athens to Athens to Athens for fear and threatening poles so that he would be detained by the child.”
In the testimony, the accomplice said: “In fact, from what he told me (the ex-wife) that made him do this because she didn’t want to bring the kids to the pole.”
As for the ex-wife – her lawyer said she insisted on her innocence.
“She has nothing to do with the murder. She has no prior knowledge of the whole thing. “Now, the most important thing is that she is afraid of the future of her children because she thinks she might lose them.” ”
“Based on the case archives and what we will present in our oral lawsuits submitted in written and major inquiries, we will focus on key points where she absolutely did not participate,” Pasiatas said outside the court.
For reasons that are not yet clear, nothing has entered the Greek media, from her remarks to the police.
“Our family is heartbroken”
Meanwhile, the victim’s family is dealing with the consequences of the unimaginable tragedy. The victim’s brother said in a statement: “Our family is heartbroken,” but thanked the Greek police and security professionals who arrested them.
“Przemek’s ten-year-old children are U.S. and Polish citizens and are now under the attention of Greek child custody procedures,” the victim’s brother, olukasz jeziorski, said in a statement. “Our main focus is their safety and well-being and helping them reconnect with their families to minimize the trauma they have already suffered.”
Jeziorski’s family began an online fundraising campaign to return his body to his native Poland and pay legal representatives in Greece.
A U.S. State Department spokesman told CNN that the agency is providing consular assistance to families.
Over the years, photos posted by Przemyslaw Jeziorski’s friends showed him. -Chemtai Mungo
The five suspects appeared in court on Monday for their guilty plea, said Michalis Dimitrakopoulos, the attorney representing the victim’s family. Four men and their ex-wife were remanded in custody before the trial. Dimitrakopoulos told CNN (Dimitrakopoulos) that a trial date will be set at a later stage.
“The victim’s mother and brother will have the only custody of the child,” Dimitrakopoulos told Greek media on Friday. The lawyer said: “We have spoken with the prosecutors of the minors so that the victim’s mother and brother can fully guard the child and live with them in Poland where they are now.”
“They have the opportunity to raise them in an environment full of protection, in a fully protected environment,” Dimitrakopoulos said, adding, “If the mother is acquitted because we respect the presumption of innocence, then she has the right to claim sole custody of the child.” ”
CNN’s Amy Croffey and Chris Dos Santos contributed to the report.
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