{"id":245258,"date":"2026-05-25T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/wild-scenes-as-controversial-premier-league-club-owner-involved-in-grandstand-brawl-with-ex-government-official\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:19:00","slug":"wild-scenes-as-controversial-premier-league-club-owner-involved-in-grandstand-brawl-with-ex-government-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/wild-scenes-as-controversial-premier-league-club-owner-involved-in-grandstand-brawl-with-ex-government-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild scenes as controversial Premier League club owner involved in grandstand brawl with ex-government official"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A sports prosecutor in Greece is looking into whether to charge Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis over a brawl during Sunday\u2019s Euroleague basketball final, state television ERT said Monday.<\/p>\n

The shipping and media magnate is allegedly seen in footage clashing with a prominent member of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis\u2019 family in the VIP stands during the final between Olympiacos Piraeus and Real Madrid in Athens.<\/p>\n

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In the footage, Marinakis allegedly slaps Mitsotakis\u2019 nephew Grigoris Dimitriadis, who hits back with a punch, before they are pulled apart.<\/p>\n

Part of the magnate\u2019s T-shirt is ripped in the fracas.<\/p>\n

Sports prosecutor Aristides Koreas is looking whether to charge both men over the incident, ERT said.<\/p>\n

A former close aide to the prime minister, Dimitriadis was forced to resign in 2022 over a wire-tapping scandal that rocked the government.<\/p>\n

Newspapers owned by Marinakis have been critical of his role in the affair. Marinakis, 58, also owns the Olympiacos Piraeus and Rio Ave football clubs. He is among dozens of defendants put on trial over the killing of a Greek riot police officer by alleged Olympiacos hooligans in 2023.<\/p>\n

He has denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Olympiacos have hit out at the prosecution as \u201cunjust collective targeting of our fans\u201d and \u201cfuelled by specific political and business interests\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A sports prosecutor in Greece is looking into whether to charge Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis over a brawl during Sunday\u2019s Euroleague basketball final, state television ERT said Monday. The shipping and media magnate is allegedly seen in footage clashing with a prominent member of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis\u2019 family in the VIP stands during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[73375,24509,73377,23756,73237,1429,5289,73376,3892,73374,2442,73373,73381,73379,73380,981,21725,3143,63160,2457,73378],"class_list":{"0":"post-245258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups","8":"tag-aristides-koreas","9":"tag-athens","10":"tag-basketball-final","11":"tag-club-owner","12":"tag-emotional-final-day","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-evangelos-marinakis","15":"tag-ex-government-official","16":"tag-football-clubs","17":"tag-grandstand-brawl","18":"tag-greece","19":"tag-greek-prime-minister","20":"tag-greek-riot-police","21":"tag-grigoris-dimitriadis","22":"tag-kyriakos-mitsotakis","23":"tag-mohamed-salah","24":"tag-prime-minister","25":"tag-real-madrid-c-f","26":"tag-rio-ave-futebol-clube","27":"tag-southern-europe","28":"tag-sports-prosecutor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}