Lignadis trial: Guilty of two rapes – Acquitted due to doubts about the other two

He was found guilty of two rapes of minors Dimitris Lignadis by a majority from the Mixed Jury Court of Athens. He was acquitted on suspicion of two more rapes, one of an adult and one of a minor. The decision was taken by majority vote.

The announcement of the sentences is awaited and it is crucial whether he will be granted mitigating circumstances.

The president of the Court, Panagiota Ioupi, announced the verdict of the judges, who by majority declared the former head of the National Theater guilty of two of the four acts of sexual violence attributed to him. According to the decision, Dimitris Lignadis was found not guilty beyond reasonable doubt by a majority of 5-2, for the first of the rapes of minors attributed to him with the time of act in 2011, he was also unanimously found not guilty for the rape in 2018 of the adult, who did not come forward in court to testify.

The court found Dimitris Lignadis guilty by a majority of 4-3, for an act of rape against a minor allegedly committed in 2015. The minority for this act, which was the president, a jury and a judge, were of the opinion that he should be tried innocent beyond doubt. He was also found guilty by a 5-2 majority of raping a minor in 2015, whom he hosted at his home. A minority in this case was the president and a judge who thought he should be found not guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

The proceedings continue with the submission of the defense for the recognition of mitigating factors.

The director and actor Dimitris Lignadis is in the courtroom with his brother by his side Yannis Lignadis and the former politician and actress Eleni Kourkoula, who is his friend and had testified at the trial as a witness for his defense. They are also present three out of four men who had denounced the actor.

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