Her annoyance at the questions she received when testifying at his trial Petrou Filippidis (although she did not mention him by name) she expressed Katia Dandoulakis a few days ago on Athenais Nega’s show “Better Late” on Action 24 when she was asked about Metoo.

“The court was very difficult, I didn’t like it at all. I didn’t like the way the defendant’s lawyer treated this particular witness at all. They use words, science does it to them, they take them out of the context of a sentence and say, you said that … Me when you do this to me I can kill you.

And because he was asking me something and in fact something very simple, for you to understand, he was asking me, that is, what did you see? I say, I didn’t see anything at all, I saw that there was a very intense flirting situation, all of us were embarrassed, I saw a child who was crying, this particular person was very worried, very irritated we couldn’t talk to him either about work or nothing, he only had his mind…. What does this mean? Can’t he flirt? I say, is there a flirt that makes the other person cry? And to feel oppressed? What is flirting? he asks me. I tell you what, I have to open an encyclopedia to understand the difference between flirting and I’m stuck and not having a good time, I don’t know, I say throwing my hands up.

What does it mean you don’t know? I don’t know, you tell me what it is… there all the time. This bothers me because it underestimates people’s intelligence. He wants to create a certain atmosphere somewhere and that makes me angry and then I become aggressive. My own character is very difficult in the sense that I can be very harsh without even putting up a fight.

Like I didn’t fight with that particular person. We hugged and went all the way outside. Because I said, you don’t have a problem with anyone, you have a problem with yourself, no one is to blame, we have nothing with you but you crossed my line. I’m in a theater and I want everyone to have a good time. How will this be done? I didn’t say anything bad” were the words of Katia Dandoulakis on the show.

Her words were answered today on the “Super Katerina” show by the advocate of Petros Filippidis, Michalis Dimitrakopoulos admitting that he was the one who asked these questions:

“The truth is that I raised questions to Ms. Dandoulakis. I treat Mrs. Dandoulakis and like all the witnesses with absolute respect. This is a timeless attitude to life. I neither attack them, nor insult them, nor slander them.

From there on, I will have to raise questions and what seems to have bothered Mrs. Dandoulakis – it is her right to be bothered – and I must give her an answer publicly. The court she had come to was about rape and attempted rape. With regard to the two rapes committed, Petros Filippides was acquitted unanimously and with an agreed prosecution proposal. There are two attempts left, which will be decided in a short time” said Michalis Dimitrakopoulos and continued:

“When we have a rape and Mrs. Dandoulakis describes a flirtation of Petros Filippidis with a colleague during the rehearsals of a show, I asked her if it was only flirting or if she also displayed behavior that shows a violent person who does not tolerate denial. If I didn’t ask this, I wouldn’t be doing my job right. Flirting is one thing, rape is another.

When you come and say that Petros Filippidis was in love with one of his colleagues and flirted with her even annoyingly, shouldn’t I say if he used violence? You will not tell a witness the reason you are asking because you are invalidating your arguments. I didn’t hire her.

It is capital in the cultural life of our country. As she does her work on the board of the theater, so I in the audience will ask questions without the witness understanding what they are aiming at.”