Colonos: Additional criminal prosecution for distinguished human trafficking against the 53-year-old

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1,000-page indictment on the action of the 53-year-old in Colonos – Search for four more persons – At least 213 “interested” people contacted the 53-year-old online.

Another serious felony charge is added to those against him 53-year-old shopkeeper protagonist in his rape case 12 year old girl to Columnafter the additional criminal prosecution brought against him by the Prosecutor.

The new charge against the main defendant in the case of the sexual abuse and exploitation of the 12-year-old girl was brought by the public prosecutor at the request of the investigator handling the case file.

So the 53-year-old merchant is now also accused of her crime distinguished human trafficking while he was also prosecuted for illegal gun possession.

According to the offense that was added today to those for which the trader will be held accountable tomorrow before the investigator, “whoever, by the use of force, threat of force or other coercive means or by imposing or abusing power, recruits, abducts, transports, illegally detains, fosters, delivers or receives another with the purpose of exploiting him” is punishable by imprisonment of at least 10 years and a fine when the act is carried out professionally and is directed against a minor.

The law states that the concept of exploitation includes, among other things, “the obtaining of an illegal financial benefit from: a) subjecting the victim to a status of slavery or to practices similar to slavery” with special reference to the cases where the exploitation of the victim concerns gender deeds.

In the footsteps of “customers”

The man, by creating a profile, was “fishing” for customers, with interested rapists reaching 213 and the police to search their digital traces to track them down.

The aim of the police is to identify those who raped the little girl, for 50 to 100 euros each.

According to the Deputy Minister of Citizen Protection, Lefteris Oikonomou, there have been communications and video transmissions from the girl’s cell phone, which must be clarified. “Calls to some people and sending videos have come from her phone,” he said and stressed that these communications would be investigated, answering the question of whether the 53-year-old forced the child to communicate.

The forensic laboratories of ELAS give absolute priority to the analysis of the mobile phones of those involved, in order to identify them and bring them to justice.

In the meantime, today, it is expected that the details of the 53-year-old will be made public, with a prosecutor’s order.

In the meantime, the 1,000 pages surpasses the case file created by the Juvenile Protection Sub-Directorate for the actions of the 53-year-old alleged rapist, with transcribed conversations, messages, statements and photographs.

They are still under the microscope of the Authorities 4 peoplewhich allegedly had approached the minor and as police sources reveal, it is very likely that a new round of arrests will soon follow.

The authorities are now examining the possibility of the existence of an organized ring of sexual exploitation of children.

“I believe that other people will come forward because there is evidence. If they do their job well, as they have done so far, other people will appear” said the lawyer of the family of the 12-year-old, Aspasia Tarahopoulou.

“Sometimes he would go to this man’s shop to help, after his own pressure to the mother, he would ask her to “send me the girl” and give her a pocket money, he would take care of her little brothers. One of her aunts, when she was on vacation with the child and her siblings, saw the messages on the cellphone and notified the mother. With the suitcases as they were from the trip, they went with the mother to the Security and made the complaint” she added.

“It is a matter of honor for our legal culture to make public the names of all those who claimed to take their turn to rape the 12-year-old girl,” pointed out the government representative Yiannis Oikonomou.

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