The 46-year-old perpetrator of the heinous murder that occurred on Sunday morning in the pilotis of a small apartment building on Githeiou Street in Glyfada is expected to appear before the prosecutor today shortly after 10:30 AM. It was around 08:10 when the Immediate Action unit was called for a domestic violence incident. According to what has emerged, the 46-year-old repeatedly stabbed his 80-year-old father and then locked him in the trunk of the latter’s car.
What emerges from witness testimonies is truly shocking. The neighbors were the ones who called the police when they heard the argument, or more accurately, the 46-year-old’s attack on his father. Witnesses emphasize that the 46-year-old approached his father, who had just come down from his first-floor apartment intending to go to church, when the former began the attack.
“My child, now I’m dying, don’t kill me anymore,” the unfortunate 80-year-old is reported to have shouted as he was dying.
The perpetrator is said to have even turned on a church service on television or radio to drown out his father’s heart-wrenching screams.
Police officers arrived at the scene a few minutes later, found the father’s body in the trunk, and then went up to the first-floor apartment where they arrested the 46-year-old. He reportedly said “I have two siblings, if you don’t stop me I’ll kill them too.”
Glyfada murder: The 46-year-old had shown signs before killing his mother
Very significant to the context of this tragic story is the fact that the 46-year-old man had stabbed and killed his mother in March 2014, 12 years earlier. At that time, he had attacked the 56-year-old woman in their home’s bathroom.
At this point come new information secured by parapolitika.gr regarding what had happened at that time. Three days before the murder of his 56-year-old mother, specifically on March 26, 2014, the then 34-year-old perpetrator had been arrested by the Immediate Action unit for violating weapons laws as he was walking around with a diving knife and a kitchen knife, while there were reports that he was wandering the streets and setting fire to garbage bins.
He had a plan targeting two minor children
Three days later, on March 29, 2014, he murdered his mother in their home’s bathtub, while a very crucial testimony from a very close relative mentioned that on the same day, the perpetrator had visited a health-related establishment where a woman worked with whom the perpetrator wanted to develop a romantic relationship in order to get close enough to her to kill her two minor children. According to the same testimony, which reportedly is included in that case’s file, the perpetrator became afraid that he would be detected and thus the young woman’s family escaped the worst. This statement comes from a person who was the one who convinced the perpetrator to surrender to the authorities at that time.
The then 34-year-old was deemed a temporary detainee and later sentenced to 16 years in prison. He remained in prison, specifically in the psychiatric wing, for approximately four years. Information indicates that following actions by his father and within the framework of the beneficial provisions of the Paraskevopoulos law, he was released on April 24, 2018, by order of the Piraeus prosecutor’s office. The conditions were mandatory residence at his father’s house and his presence at the local police station every 1st and 15th of the month. Involuntary hospitalization at Dromokaiteio Hospital was ordered, with his discharge at an unknown time until now.
The 46-year-old was complying with the condition of appearing at the local Security Department with his last recorded appearance on January 16, 2026, 9 days before the murderous attack on his father. However, there are reports that he was violating the condition of residing at his father’s house, as testimonies emphasize that in 2023 he had moved out. As emerges from the release order, however, the restrictive conditions would be lifted next February.
