Under heavy police security, the 41-year-old confessed perpetrator of the femicide that killed 39-year-old Vasiliki arrived at Kalamata courthouse on Saturday morning (6/6). The 41-year-old was brought before the examining magistrate to give his testimony.
Kalamata femicide: The charges facing the 41-year-old
The 41-year-old confessed killer in Kalamata faces charges including premeditated murder in a calm mental state, domestic violence, weapons law violations, and felony-level personal data breaches.
Shocking testimony from the 39-year-old’s aunt
Meanwhile, shocking details have emerged about what the 39-year-old endured before her murder. As revealed by Vasiliki’s aunt, the 41-year-old systematically abused the young woman, beating her even when she was pregnant, causing her to lose two children. “I didn’t know this, my child, I didn’t know. If I had known he was abusing his wife, I would have torn his eyes out. But I know he was very jealous of her.
Her mother had told me when we talked sometimes, her sister had also told me. Meanwhile, his father comes out and says his nonsense. They were even paying his rent, and my daughter-in-law would take him food in a pot to eat, and he would hit her child. And then his own father comes out saying ‘I didn’t know, I didn’t know.’ Didn’t you see all those years that he was hitting the child?” said the 39-year-old’s aunt on the “Smile Again” show on Mega.
About why the 39-year-old didn’t seek help or wasn’t given support: “We had lost touch. When she left home, when her parents died and she left home and Vasiliki, we lost contact afterward. The girl didn’t go out at all so I could meet her somewhere. She wouldn’t answer the phone. He had cut her off from everyone. Because if she had come to me and told me, I would have helped her. She was ashamed to come and tell me, and because she knew I get angry at the slightest thing, she didn’t say anything.”
The girl’s aunt continued: “Her mother had seen her beaten. He would hit her in the stomach, and Vasiliki lost two children. He would hit her in the stomach and she would lose the babies. When she was pregnant with boys, he would hit her and she lost the children. She had gotten pregnant again twice, and had lost them. And her mother would tell me, I’d ask ‘how is little Vaso?’, ‘she lost it’ she tells me ‘the baby’. And the other one, two.”
About the perpetrator’s family: “What can they say now? That their son killed her? What can they say about that? They didn’t even go to the funeral. I was looking… among the crowd. If I had found them in the crowd, the newspapers would have written about us. I would have kicked them out. And I heard… them saying, ‘we’ll pay for the funeral.’ What do you mean pay for the funeral? You should pay! Your child killed her. Look to help your grandchildren now that they’ll go to institutions.”
About the family’s children: “The older girl would tell the children at school that ‘I can’t listen to their voices, that my dad hits my mom.’ The child would say this, mothers told me, whose children went to school together. She said N. should take them. Now I don’t know if they’ll give them to her. She adores them. She baptized both of them. She loves them, she’ll try to get them.”
“I learned that the older child said that mommy died. But doesn’t know how she died. The child learned that his mother died, but they haven’t told them how she died,” she noted, while discussing whether the children understood something on that fatal night.
“I think they understood because the children were inside. Since they were shouting, they heard voices nearby. A lady at the funeral said ‘I heard the voices, I heard the beating, the cries for help.’ And I told her: ‘And you don’t make a phone call to the police?’ and she answered ‘Oh, to get involved?’ ‘To get involved’ I tell her. You left two children orphaned. If Vasiliki had come to me, I would have helped her. I would have found her work and helped the children go to school, and everything. She didn’t come to ask me. That’s why I cry. Because I could have helped her.” Regarding the psychiatric evaluation that the confessed perpetrator is expected to request: “To have him declared mentally ill so he can escape? Let him go, if the lawyer thinks he should do this.”
