Two 22-year-old men accused of the double murder of a 68-year-old campsite owner and his employee in Foinikounda, southern Greece, are facing charges of premeditated homicide. Both suspects have been granted time to testify on Sunday, while offering conflicting versions of what happened on the night of the killings.

The man identified as the shooter claims his friend committed the murders. “We arrived at the campsite and I waited outside. He went in alone. A little later, he came out running and said something bad had happened. We argued on the way back, and I left him there. I had no reason to kill anyone,” he told investigators.

The second suspect, who later turned himself in to police in Athens, says the opposite. He admits they went to the campsite to threaten the owner and demand money but insists he did not know his friend was carrying a gun. He also told police that his friend had said before the attack, “I’ll make sure he pays for it,” implying he would take matters into his own hands.

Police sources say there is no evidence the motive was related to inheritance issues involving the 68-year-old businessman. Instead, investigators are exploring the possibility of extortion and are awaiting the results of phone record analysis and security footage from around 300 cameras tracing the suspects’ movements.

The only eyewitness, the victim’s nephew, identified the Greek-British suspect as the gunman. He described how he managed to escape: “I looked back and saw him aiming at me. I heard one or two more shots and ran as fast as I could.”

Authorities are also examining two wills left by the murdered man. According to relatives, in his second will he excluded a niece and left his estate to his son and the employee who was also killed. Family members have requested a full crime-scene reenactment to clarify which of the two suspects fired the fatal shots.

The reenactment is expected to bring both young men back to the campsite, along with the surviving witness, to reconstruct the events of October 5.