Roula Pispirigou began to answer questions from the Chair, who today, on the fourth day of her apology, finished what she herself wanted to say about what is attributed to her for the attempted and subsequent murder of her first-born daughter, Georgina.

The accused in the last part of her version of what happened, of “her truth” as the president told her before starting the questions, mentioned in detail and visibly disturbed or crying what followed Georgina’s death, relations with “the journalistic world” , but also the arrest and the pressure he received in GADA “to say something I didn’t do”.

She also said that in order to get her to confess, they beat her, with the president asking the defense to present the forensic report drawn up after the accused’s complaint.

Pispirigou’s examination began with questions from the president that focused on the 35-year-old’s relationship with the father of her three daughters, Manos Daskalakis, but also on her own feelings about the loss of children: first Malena in 2019, then Iris in 2021 and finally Georgina’s in 2022.

The defendant stated that she was devastated when Malena disappeared, that she cried constantly and that she had sought the help of a specialist.

When asked by the president to describe how she experienced the loss of her six-month-old Iris, Roula Pispirigou replied that she did not experience sadness or pain, as with her first child, but anger: “It’s easy to judge someone, but if you don’t wear their shoes, you can’t to speak .

Malena’s illness was sudden….When she died I cried constantly. In everyday life I was the living dead. But behind me I had a child, Georgina, who told me “me and daddy are strong”. I had to find strength, I couldn’t realize it. It was unimaginable, very short… I took the black ones out later.

I wanted to wear white and pink: my children’s favorite colors. I consider blacks hypocrisy. I was angry with Iris. “Why us?” I was saying. In both losses, Georgina was behind, the motivation to get up and move forward. I didn’t have time to go to the psychologist about Iris’s death, the time was short. I had spoken on the phone. I was too stressed, I wanted to disappear from everyone. I was suffocating. I also had over my head the murmur of Manus, the loss of Iris and a family that I could see myself losing.”

President: How did you react to that?

Accused: I wanted some time to vent. I went to a hotel for a day. Manos misinterpreted a message from me that I was going to kill myself and upset my family. It was something that hadn’t happened…

President: How did you experience the mourning after Georgina’s death?

Accused: Until now I am experiencing it. I was in bad shape mentally. I went to a psychiatrist and he gave me pills because I couldn’t sleep. It was good for me, the publicity occupied my mind.

I don’t feel good saying it, but it’s the truth: I was having sex with Mano to get physically tired and sleep.

President: Didn’t you like the pills?

Accused: I didn’t have time to take many days.

At the start of the hearing, the defendant showed the judges the braces and collar worn by Georgina, as well as the tattoos with the names of her children who have passed away.

She then described the time that passed after Georgina’s death, referring at length to the time until she was accused. He referred to the reports that were beginning to describe the case of the “three children of Patras” about which “the whole of Greece was talking” from a family tragedy to “a climate against me: they began to imply that it was a criminal act”.

He even made special reference to a publication in which there was a photo of Malena from the morgue “the absolute shame” he said and added: “I was convicted before I became a suspect… It has entered as a motive here in this case as a motive that I wanted to keep him Mano and not in the other two cases ..It’s stupid, stupid.You have to be mentally ill to put such a motive without evidence..What happened with Georgina and the ketamine I believe also led to the prosecution of the other two children…. .

There was no suspicion of me or anyone else. It was on file and toxicologically and I can’t understand how everyone becomes Pythias. And to be prosecuted against me. Things that don’t make sense. I don’t know what purpose all this served. All the public opinion, from the publications, got carried away and has this grudge against me without knowing us…. No one other than the people close to us knew what we were doing in our house. We were not famous, public figures… Just a story was heard.

“How do you have three kids in three years??” they said one after the other and suddenly it all happened. All this publicity started.. We tried to set some limits but somewhere we lost it, we couldn’t catch up. We couldn’t understand why there was this whole climate of compassion and tragedy about the mother killing her child for the father. I never understood that I saw it in my class.”

Several times the accused, referring to her former husband, who watched her testimony, did not hide the negative image she seems to have of him, while implying that at that time Manos Daskalakis was secretly giving information to journalists.

Referring to her arrest and transfer to GADA, the accused said that the police officers put a lot of psychological pressure on her in order to confess that “out of pity, in order to save the child, you gave him ketamine that Daskalakis gave you” and that she herself told them that he can’t say something he hasn’t done.

He also described in detail her arrest after hours in GADA, her transfer to Evelpidon, the decision to remand her and her transfer to prison where she requested protection “from the unwritten law of the prison”.

As the Administration said, they made sure that she would not be in danger from another prisoner, so “For 22 months now, I have been alone and I have no relationship with anyone. In the next cell is another mother from Colonos. They have put a phone on me. I have never gone out. outside, I haven’t spoken to anyone. At first, I didn’t eat at all. I had verbal attacks from the window… Fortunately for me, the manager dealt with them…. For quite some time when I passed, the doors rattled so loudly that they were knocked down.”

Answering a question from the president, the 35-year-old said that her relationship with Manos “wasn’t like in the advertisements” and emphasizing that her choice “turned out to be wrong. I can do it now”. Her description of Daskalakis as a partner was rather negative, as she said that he had “outbursts”, that he was demanding and that she managed the finances herself, so that she could cover his needs, sometimes for football, sometimes for music, when for Vespa and motorbike and not to “listen to his moaning” as he mentioned.

The apology will continue tomorrow.