Five people charged in murder of UC Berkeley professor in Greece, including ex-wife

Five people have been arrested and charged in the murder of a University of California, Berkeley, professor, in Greece, including his ex-wife and her boyfriend, according to Greek police.

Przemyslaw Jeziorski, 43, who taught quantitative marketing as a tenured associate professor at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, was killed July 4 in Athens by an attacker who shot him in the chest and back, according to The New York Times.

The so-far unnamed defendants had their first court appearance Thursday and were charged with intentional homicide.

Jeziorski's ex-wife's lawyer told the Greek news media that his client had no involvement in the killing. He also denied that Jeziorski and his ex-wife were having custody issues.

The lawyer for the ex-wife's boyfriend told reporters in Greece that his client had “accepted responsibility” for the killing.

When Jeziorski was killed, he was in Athens to see his two young children and make legal arrangements for future visitation. His ex-wife, who's Greek, had unsuccessfully tried to block him from future visitation, according to officials.

Jeziorski applied in May for a restraining order against his ex-wife, according to records filed in Superior Court in Alameda County, Calif. He accused his ex-wife of making threats against him and attempted extortion, while also claiming that her boyfriend had assaulted him twice while he was visiting his children in Athens.

Police said that the defendants were taken into custody Wednesday, and that Jeziorski's ex-wife, 40, instigated the attack, which her boyfriend, a 35-year-old Greek, carried out.

The three other charged have been identified by authorities as two Albanian nationals, who are 24 and 16, and one Bulgarian, who is 30.