Australian tourist in a coma after Greece nightclub bashing

Friends rally on Facebook for Mykonos victim

Doujon Zammit was attacked earlier this week. (www.facebook.com)



As an Australian man injured in an attack on the Greek island of Mykonos remains in a critical condition in hospital, his friends have set up a Facebook group in his honour.

New South Wales man Doujon Zammit and his cousin, both 20, were attacked earlier this week.

Mr Zammit is in the intensive care unit of an Athens hospital.

Greek authorities have arrested the alleged offenders.

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says it is a very serious and disturbing incident.

The Facebook group "Only the good Die Young" had 60 members at 2.45pm AEST and carried tributes to Mr Zammit, including "My heart goes out to your family and friends. You will be missed."

Another reads: "I offer all his family and closest friends the greatest sympathies and hope we receive the best possible news."

Family of bashed tourist likely to turn off life support

Mum's final goodbye for slain son

Oliver Zammit the father of Doujon

The mother of a young Sydney man left in a coma after a clash with bouncers in Greece managed a final, remote goodbye for her son as doctors switched off his life support.

Doujon Zammit's mother, on the phone from the family’s Sydney home, listened as a priest read prayers for her 20-year-old son by his bed in an Athens hospital.

"Mrs Zammit said goodbye over the phone and they switched off the life support," a friend of the family told ninemsn.

"He's gone."

Doctors said Zammit had been "clinically dead" since Thursday, two days after he suffered serious head injuries in the assault outside a nightclub on the island of Mykonos.

His father switched off the life support machine on Friday afternoon, state television NET said.

Zammit's mother had reportedly been unable to make the journey to Athens after falling ill at Sydney Airport.

Maria Kairi, general director of the Henry Dunant hospital, said Zammit's family had decided to donate his organs. Zammit's heart will go to an Australian national currently hospitalised in Athens' Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre.

"They have also accepted to donate the rest of his organs to save Greek people," Kairi said.

Zammit was among six Australians involved in a confrontation early on Tuesday morning with four staff at the Tropicana club on Paradise beach, a well-known summer hotspot.

The Australians were suspected of having stolen bags and wallets in the nightclub, an accusation later dismissed by police.

Zammit was reportedly hit on the head with a baton, while two of his companions sustained minor injuries.

He was sent to a health centre on Mykonos, then to hospital, before he was transferred to hospital in the Greek capital.

Police charged one of the bouncers and a parking lot attendant with attempted murder.

The two suspects face additional charges after having allegedly pretended to be police officers to stop the Australians and search them for the missing items.

Two more bouncers were charged with causing bodily harm.

"I would like you to know that this is going to tie myself and my family... to Greece," Zammit's father Oliver told journalists as he fought back tears.

He added his thanks for the support he had received while in Greece.

The incident has sparked anger in Greece where Tourism Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos is due to travel to Mykonos for a meeting with local authorities.

Hundreds of messages of sympathy have been sent to a newly-created Facebook page.