Eirini Mourtzoukou, the protagonist of one of the darkest cases in the history of criminology in recent decades. As revelations about the high-profile case of infant deaths in Amaliada continue to unfold, exposing the profoundly dark psyche of the young woman who led to the death of children, experts focus on the “dark triad” of the 25-year-old’s personality.
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Antonis Dakanalis, spoke about Eirini Mourtzoukou’s family environment, the motives, and those elements of her personality that led the 25-year-old to commit child murders. “In the case of Eirini Mourtzoukou, we have a sick family system, an abusive environment. You see the criminal acts that began at age 14. Before that, there was already something else and we see an escalation of behavior,” the professor emphasizes.
“The first sentence Eirini said to me when I met her was ‘I don’t want you to talk to me about my mother, because she never gave me a hug,'” the professor initially described speaking to Ant1 and added the following:
“There was intense deviant behavior. Theft, lies… all of this escalates if you don’t stop it. These things don’t arise randomly, they are created within an environment, when a child grows up without boundaries and when naturally in the environment – the abusive one because Eirini’s environment was abusive, this is indisputable – they essentially learn that affection means rejection and abandonment.”
Eirini Mourtzoukou: The profiling of her personality
“If we go to understand the motives, the ‘why she did it,’ because there is also a psychopathic personality, I’ll tell you very simply: if the mother from Patras sacrificed her children to save her marriage with her husband, Mourtzoukou did it to punish her mother first. Essentially there was on one hand the need for acceptance and on the other, boundless hatred.
This hatred she transferred, she didn’t direct it straight at her mother, but tried to hurt every person who in a relationship – whether family, friendly or romantic – hurt her. But this is the motive,” explained Mr. Dakanalis, who pointed out that the motive doesn’t justify the murders.
According to Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Antonis Dakanalis, this “dark triad of personality” is: “Machiavellianism, manipulative ability, narcissistic elements that were intense. And naturally there are also psychopathic elements, meaning: lack of remorse, lack of moral barriers, lack of guilt.”
“A woman who essentially punishes, as I told you, without having any value. Complete worthlessness, because to reach the point of killing and with the same pattern, as she said, which means: ‘I get angry, I get confused and I eliminate you,’ means that first inside you must have killed – and on this I am absolute – the idea of humanity, every trace of humanity,” he concluded.
