Rapper’s killer says stabbing was ‘simple’ homicide

Showing no sign of remorse, Giorgos Roupakias, the man charged with the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas in September 2013, described the incident as a "simple homicide" that has been "blown out of proportion" in his testimony Thursday before a panel of judges in a packed Athens courtroom.
Roupakias, an active Golden Dawn supporter, sought to refute the charge that the killing was premeditated, claiming that he had never heard of Fyssas before the night of September 18, 2013.
He said he was heading to another incident when he drove outside the cafe where the victim was sitting with friends.
"Everything happened very fast," he told the court, going on to claim that as soon as he parked his car, Fyssas approached him with three or four other men.
"There was a distance of four meters between us. He [Fyssas] probably remembered me and called out 'what is it?' and came...