Rhodes: A 33-year-old man was sentenced for beating his 22-year-old partner

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Relatives and friends of the 22-year-old girl gathered outside the Rhodes Courthouse, holding banners with slogans

With prison sentence 3 years with a three-year suspension under the conditions of appearing once in the first fortnight of every month at the local police station, not approaching the partner at a distance of less than 100 meters and not communicating with her, sentenced the Three-member Criminal Court of Rhodes the 33-year-old who at the beginning of December hit his 22-year-old partner.

Also, the court decided that the appeal should have a suspensory effect, under the same conditions.

However, during the hearing, the defense attorneys for the prosecution Mr. Nikos Giannas and Myriam Tomara presented to the court video from security cameras of the area where the incident took place (in the city of Rhodes and outside the shop where the couple had fun on December 3), requesting that the charge against the 33-year-old be changed to a felony.

Finally, the trial started normally, with the 33-year-old accused of simple bodily harm, a charge for which he was convicted.

The 22-year-old testifying in court referred to the incident that happened and the violence she received from the 33-year-old that night, clarifying however that she did not remember enough points as she was shocked and that she saw them from the video that was presented to the court.

“I don’t remember them because I was shocked, but I remember that he dragged me for 5-6 meters.”

For his part, the 33-year-old denied what was attributed to him, he claimed that the girl was injured by herself from a fall on the sidewalk, and that he tried to pick her up twice but the 22-year-old refused.

It is worth noting that outside the Rhodes Courthouse, relatives and friends of the 22-year-old girl gathered since early yesterday afternoon, holding banners with slogans against gender-based violence as well as photos with the bloodied face of the victim.

In fact, there was also tension between the relatives of the two sides, which luckily did not last long thanks to the intervention of the cooler ones, while a strong police force was inside the building throughout the trial.

According to what has become known, the case began to concern the prosecuting authorities of our region on the morning of December 3, when the relevant complaint was made by the mother of the 22-year-old and the arrest of the 33-year-old.

Based on the evidence of the case file and the complaint, the couple who lived together, went out for fun in a tavern in the city of Rhodes together with the 33-year-old’s cousin and when they went out to leave there, the 33-year-old is accused of hitting after a fight, the His partner of 22 years.

Then all three (the couple and the cousin) got into the 33-year-old’s car, drove to Faliraki where they left the cousin and then the other two went home. There the 33-year-old slept and a little while later he was arrested by the police who had received the 22-year-old’s complaint through her mother.

The procedure prescribed by law was initiated against the arrested person.

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