Reporting: Makis Synodinos

From the back door of the courts, Roula Pispirigou arrived at the Mixed Jury, as today the examination of her estranged husband, Manos Daskalakis, is expected, who is called to answer the questions of the defense of the accused for the death of their first child, 9-year-old Georgina .

Speaking to the journalists, the lawyer of Roulas Pispirigou, Alexis Kougias, said that today’s trial is interesting and added that many times in a trial some people change from witnesses to defendants, not in the essence of the case which is homicide, but because of the procedural behavior, as the court realizes that someone is testifying something that is not true it has the right to impeach him.

Today begins the collapse of a system that managed to abolish even the functioning of justice, Mr. Kougias said and went on to say that in this case things were turned upside down, there was a whole system that won too many things.

As everything shows, the lawyer of the 34-year-old temporarily detained accused, intends to make it very difficult for the father of three children who is standing on the side of the Support of the accusation against the woman whom a year ago he considered not only innocent but also an “exemplary mother”. Mr. Kougias even said outside the court in the previous session that in the next trial, i.e. in today’s “someone will be found accused”, taking care to clarify that he does not mean any new accused for Georgina’s death.

The witness told the court that “I supported the accused until she was arrested” as there was not the slightest evidence, he said, to make him doubt the mother of his children. He also said that in retrospect he gives a different interpretation to events and now, supporting the admissions of the indictment, he connects the incidents that the children showed, with crises in his relationship with Roula Pispirigou.

As Manos Daskalakis said, Georgina’s death is directly related to his decision to leave once again from the house where he had returned when the 9-year-old was left totally disabled after a seizure episode that he suffered in the Hospital. According to Mr. Daskalakis, his refusal to accept the 34-year-old’s proposal to “find them” and correspondingly her own refusal to accept that his return was solely related to the child’s condition, was what drove the little girl again, to the Hospital and then to his loss.

“He did it to punish me” said the witness in court, giving occasion to the defense of Roula Pispirigou to state that with this version, Manos Daskalakis “shredded the indictment”.

According to Mr. Kouya, the witness’s claim in court is a completely different condition from the one accepted by the indictment, which considers the 34-year-old’s obsession to “keep at home” her ex-husband as the motive for the murders.

The 31-year-old father is expected to be questioned about everything today and is said to be prepared for the “battle” of substance as well as impressions in which he will be asked not only to repeat what he has noted in the previous session by the defense of his former wife, but also those which Mr. Kougias will want to highlight, who has questioned everything from the beginning, stating that the case of Roula Pispirigou is a “judicial error”.

With information from APE