Greece’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal Marios-Sosipatros Antonopoulos against a lower appeals court,  ruling indicting him on intentional homicide charges in the death of 20-year-old Australian tourist Doujon Zammit.

Zammit’s fatal bashing, which generated international media coverage, occurred outside a bar on the island of Mykonos in late July 2008.

A bouncer at the now defunct Tropicana club at the time of the fatal incident, will also be charged with the attempted homicide of other foreign tourists accompanying the victim, possession of a lethal weapon and unprovoked dangerous bodily harm.

Two other men who were with the primary suspect will face attempted homicide charges.

The incident occurred on July 28, 2008, when the group of young Australians was allegedly attacked by Antonopoulos.

The latter is accused of hitting them repeatedly with a collapsible metal truncheon, while continuing to punch Zammit even as he lay covered with blood on the ground, according to witnesses’ testimony.

The young Australian lost consciousness in an ambulance taking him to the island’s health centre and was subsequently flown to a hospital in Athens, where he died on August 2.