The trial of three police officers accused of the gang rape of a 19-year-old woman at the Omonia Police Station in October 2022 continued at the Athens Mixed Jury Court. Three police officers are in the dock, two facing rape charges and the third charged with complicity in the case involving the 19-year-old who alleges she was the victim of gang rape inside the Omonia Police Station. All three deny the acts attributed to them.
Rape of 19-year-old at Omonia Police Station: The mother’s shocking testimony
“My daughter had a great fear of men, she was a very closed and introverted child who didn’t go out for drinks. She had a relationship for about a month, which was also her first sexual contact. Whenever she was scared, I would go with her. She was afraid something might happen to her on the street, and I was always there with her.”
“They told her to enter a small room that had many lockers”
Regarding the night of October 2022, the mother testified in detail:
“On October 11, 2022, she told me she was going for coffee with a friend in Monastiraki. She called me when she met her friend. I saw time passing, it had gone past 10 and she told me ‘I’ll be back soon.’ At 11 PM when I called her, she didn’t answer the call and then, the second time, she declined it. At 12:30-1 AM she returned home. She enters the house crying and says: ‘Sorry mom.’ She turned around and locked herself in her room until morning. The next day we talked in the morning. I didn’t know she had gone to the gynecologist. She told me ‘mom, sorry, I lied to you.’ She was in Monastiraki and the police officers told her ‘come, we’ll take you to the duty officer so you can ask him.’ They were on motorcycles. Sotiria went alone on foot. She met them outside, caught some signals but didn’t pay attention.”
The mother described the defendants’ actions in chilling detail:
“They told her to enter a small room that had many lockers. All three entered, two remained and then one remained. Then there were two. One told her to sit on a table that was in the room. Two left, one remained. He forcibly put her on the table, lifted her skirt and raped her. She told me it hurt and she was screaming. The phone was ringing and he forbade her to answer while the child was bleeding. One left, the other entered. It happened without her consent. He went, washed his hand, came back and forced her to engage in sexual acts. She was very ashamed of this.”
The mother also emphasized that they had their weapon with them on the table and the camera that was recording her. “My daughter was saying ‘I can’t live with what they’ve done to me.'” In her testimony she also pointed out that: “At 9 PM my daughter called me to tell me she wouldn’t be late. At 10:47 PM I called her and we talked for 1 minute and 25 seconds. At 12:01 I called her and she didn’t answer. At 12:02 I called her again and she hung up!
We went to file a complaint, but they answered us “unfortunately we are a clique”. I learned about the incident that night, one day later, after she returned from the gynecologist. My daughter saw a camera blinking and the police officer answered her “no, the battery is dying”.
What the 19-year-old’s gynecologist testifies
“The 19-year-old had come to my office reporting her first contact. 25 days before the incident she had visited the office for an examination, during which I found trauma to her genital organs. On October 12, 2022, she called me and came to my office in the afternoon alone for an examination, where I again found trauma. She had blood after contact, which however she didn’t immediately report. She was scared and a bit strange in her behavior. I sent her to a forensic doctor. I found intense contact and she told me it wasn’t with her consent. She told me she had taken the morning-after pill. Because there was a rupture, bleeding was caused. I applied a hemostatic, without needing stitches. The bleeding was minor, drops of blood, not a flow.”
Testimony from social media friend
The 19-year-old’s friend from social media also testified in detail about the 19-year-old’s behavior and psychological state.
“We only communicated through social media. She had told me she was seeing a psychiatrist for depression. She’s a person with low self-esteem. I was trying to lift her spirits. I knew she was growing up with her mom and brother. She had told me she didn’t like her father at all. She trusted people quite easily and also got enthusiastic very easily.”
“On October 11, 2022, we talked and she told me she was going out for coffee with a friend. ‘I’m having a good time,’ she sent me at 23:09.”
“One of the police officers sent me a message,” the 19-year-old writes to her friend.
The friend continues in her testimony: “The next day she told me she was bleeding and I answered that it’s normal during the act. I knew that with both police officers they engaged in sexual acts. She told me everything through written messages. She didn’t initially mention anything about it happening without her consent. One day later she said she would file a lawsuit because things didn’t happen with her will. The first night I hadn’t understood anything. She told me that the next morning one police officer sent her a message ‘Hi, how are you.’ I told her if she doesn’t want to, to block him.”
In any case, the trial of the three police officers for the rape of the 19-year-old will continue on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at 09:00 with new witness testimonies.
