Alket rizai biography definition

This article originally appeared on VICE Greece

On the evening of the 6th of June, 2006, a small helicopter landed in the yard of the Korydallos maximum security prison in Piraeus, a port city in southern Greece.

A few moments later, it took off, carrying two prisoners – Vassilis Palaiokostas and Alket Rizai.

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This was Greece’s first ever helicopter prison break. A week later, the pilot would tell police that, on the day of the escape, “Two men asked for a ride over Athens, paying the €1,400 fee in advance.

A few minutes after takeoff, they threatened me with a gun and a grenade, and forced me to land in Korydalloss.”

Rizai was eventually arrested four months later in a village in south-west Greece, while it took police another three months after that to find Palaiokostas, only for both to escape via helicopter again in 2009 as they waited to face trial for their first prison break.

Palaiokostas was never found, but Rizai was arrested