In the prisons of Grevena until the DNA results are released a dance teacher from Thessaloniki has been detained since yesterday, accused of neglecting an 18-year-old disabled person, inside a museum in Alonissos.

The 37-year-old from Thessaloniki went on vacation with a colleague in Alonissos and was accused of misbehaving against an 18-year-old with limited intelligence. Yesterday he was taken to the investigator and he denied all the accusations saying they are figments of the child’s imagination, a fact he said will be proven by the cameras and dna results. “I have to be subjected to every possible examination, to see every aspect from the cameras. It’s all in the child’s imagination,” said the 37-year-old in his apology. He was asked if he was attracted to the same sex, and he answered in the negative, saying that he had never been attracted while he had a partner.

On August 30, a 37-year-old man from Thessaloniki and his 53-year-old girlfriend visited a traditional house-museum in Alonissos where the 18-year-old works. The young man bought the tickets for the visitors and took over their tour. The 53-year-old stayed on the ground floor of the museum and the young man took it upon himself to guide the 37-year-old to the first floor. There, the visitor, according to the complaint, he began groping the 18-year-old who was fearfully asking him if what he was doing “was right.” The child, according to his testimony, was shaking and he was asking him to calm down so he could “enjoy it”.

The 18-year-old stated in his testimony that the 37-year-old had a fight and then masturbated. Throughout the incident, the 53-year-old did not go up to the floor of the museum. The 18-year-old locked the museum, left and met with a peer to whom he confessed what happened. He advised him to speak to his father, which he did a lawsuit followed to the police and then to the Public Prosecutor who prosecuted the 37-year-old for abusing a person incapable of resistance and for simple complicity with the 53-year-old.

Yesterday they were taken to the investigator and the 37-year-old’s colleague who defended him in her testimony saying that nothing happened, was released. The 37-year-old is being defended by a lawyer from Thessaloniki who told gegonota.news that they have known this particular dance teacher for 20 years, hundreds of people have entrusted him with their children, including himself, and he has never given any rights. “We have known him for 20 years. It is not possible that we had not understood anything for two decades. We are not stupid to trust our children”, he said.