With the testimony of the father of 21-year-old Emma the trial for the fatal abduction and abandonment of the young student from Crete, in the early hours of November 22, 2022, on Egnatia Street (at the height of Kamara), a case for which the 27-year-old driver I.X. . car, temporarily detained in prisons.

“He must be punished for the evil he has done, and he must be punished in an exemplary way […] The road is not a “track”, you don’t go out to reap”, said the father with tears in his eyes, in a courtroom suffocatingly full of Emma’s fellow students and friends.

He mentioned that his daughter had just returned to Thessaloniki from Crete, but “she didn’t have time to go home.” “She was going to surprise her friend who had a birthday and that’s why she had gone to buy candles” she pointed out, explaining to the court how she found herself at the point where her life thread was about to be cut.

According to him, the 21-year-old, third-year student at the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the AUTH, was crossing the road, having reached the other stream of traffic. “She had good traffic knowledge,” he said, while referring to the circumstances of the accident, he estimated that his daughter “definitely saw that bastard’s car, but she couldn’t perceive his speed – she definitely heard the noise, maybe she thought she could catch up.” .

He spoke of an “uncontrollable course” which was followed by the vehicle driven by the defendant, stating that the car had undergone technical modifications and its horsepower had multiplied, reaching “perhaps 400 horses”. Speaking in his professional capacity as a “Certified Candidate Driver Examiner”, he commented that the car’s construction could not support such horsepower.

“The child was in pieces,” he noted when asked about Emma’s image when he saw her at the hospital where she was treated. The witness also reported that he had been in contact with his daughter a few minutes before the car accident and they exchanged messages and videos through their mobile phones.

The requests of the defense

Earlier, the defense lawyer for the 27-year-old (who is being prosecuted for dangerous driving resulting in death, as well as for leaving a traffic accident and driving without a license) made two requests to the court: on the one hand, that the expert appointed to do the technical examination should be called to testify in the context of the main investigation and on the other hand, Traffic police officers who first arrived at the scene of the accident and drew up the autopsy report. For these requests, the judges reserved a decision on the course of the trial, which was adjourned until November 29.

The side of the accused argued that the crime of dangerous driving (felony) is not established and that the act committed is that of manslaughter.

The indictment

As described in the indictment, the 27-year-old was not the owner of the fatal car, which had undergone modifications to multiply the horsepower and increase its performance, while the expert opinion showed that it was technically unsafe and dangerous.

It is characteristic that the accused driver allegedly developed excessive speed, which reached 104 km/h, with a speed limit of 50 km/h.

The unfortunate student of the Veterinary School was hospitalized for five days in the ICU of Papageorgiou Hospital where she finally breathed her last. Showing greatness of soul and despite their deep grief, the parents proceeded to donate her organs.

The touching meeting with the woman who received Emma’s kidney

The woman who received one of Emma’s kidneys was found in the courts of Thessaloniki this morning. He came to support the parents of the unfortunate student, with whom they hugged and talked for a long time.