The 41-year-old’s testimony lasted over six hours, as he confessed to murdering the 39-year-old woman at the Kalamata courthouse. The now-imprisoned femicide perpetrator attributed the 45 stab wounds to a “blackout,” claiming a fight preceded the brutal killing of his wife. The examining magistrate and prosecutor unanimously decided on his pretrial detention. Outside the courthouse, ERT reported that a small crowd had gathered to condemn him. The same occurred upon his arrival. According to reports, the 41-year-old claimed that his relationship with Vasiliki had ended last September and that they continued living in the same house until divorce proceedings were completed. Referring to the events of that fatal night, he allegedly spoke of a prolonged argument between the couple, claiming there was a scuffle and that “at some point he blacked out.” According to the same sources, he referenced the recordings and surveillance footage that had been discovered. According to his claims, these were maintained to be used in potential legal proceedings regarding child custody and not to monitor his wife.
Kalamata: What he said about the surveillance bug
The 41-year-old murderer of his 39-year-old wife in Kalamata likely claimed during his testimony that he destroyed approximately one day before the femicide the surveillance bug he had placed in the house. This was reported by MEGA, as besides the bug, the 41-year-old allegedly installed GPS tracking in her car. Moreover, STAR reported that a hard drive was found at the accounting office where he worked. It’s estimated to contain material from the surveillance bug he had installed. A MEGA report also showed a gathering in support of murdered women in Kalamata, however it also highlighted messages justifying the 41-year-old’s actions.
Kalamata: The miscarriages caused by beatings
Under heavy police security and in a police vehicle, the 41-year-old confessed perpetrator of the femicide with victim 39-year-old Vasiliki had arrived at the Kalamata courts on Saturday morning (6/6). The 41-year-old was brought before the examining magistrate to give his testimony.
Femicide in Kalamata: The charges facing the 41-year-old
The 41-year-old detainee faces charges of premeditated murder in a calm mental state, domestic violence, weapons law violations, and felony-level personal data breach.
The 39-year-old’s aunt shares shocking details
Meanwhile, shocking details emerge about what the 39-year-old allegedly endured before being murdered. As revealed by Vasiliki’s aunt, the 41-year-old systematically abused the young woman, beating her even when she was pregnant, resulting in the loss of two children. “I didn’t know this, my child, I didn’t know. And if 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 told me too. Meanwhile, his father comes out and says his nonsense. They even paid his rent, and my daughter-in-law would take him food in a pot to eat, and he would beat her child. And then his own father comes out, ‘I didn’t know,’ he says, ‘I didn’t know.’ Didn’t you see all these years that he was beating the child?”, said the 39-year-old’s aunt on the show “Smile Again” on Mega.
Regarding why the 39-year-old didn’t seek help or wasn’t provided support: “We had lost touch. When she left home, when her parents died and both she and Vasiliki left home, we lost contact afterward. The girl never went out 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 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 beat her in the stomach and she would lose the babies. When she was pregnant with boys, he would beat her and she lost the children. She had gotten pregnant again two more times, and she 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? Here they didn’t even go to the funeral. I was looking… among the people. If I had found them among 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 will you 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, because my daddy beats my mommy.’ 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 take 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 mentioned, regarding whether the children understood something that fatal night.
“I say 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 cry for help.’ And I told her: ‘And you don’t make a phone call to the police?’ and she answered ‘Ah, 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 ask me. That’s why I cry. Because I could have helped her.” Regarding the psychiatric evaluation expected to be requested by the confessed perpetrator: “To declare him mentally ill so he can escape? Let him go, if the lawyer thinks he should do this.”
