She was asked about the way Georgina dealt with the loss of her two younger brothers, but also about many other issues that are considered crucial for the judgment of the court. Roula Pispirigou on today’s fifth day of apology for the attempted and murder of her first-born daughter.

The accused she received loads of questions from the president about her family life, about the relationship with the father of the family’s three daughters, but also about her decision a few months after the death of her first child, Malena, and having Georgina, who might need support, to have a child again, i.e. Iris.

Seeking confirmation or denial of the prosecution’s admission that the 35-year-old mother poisoned Georgina with the aim of reuniting her with Manos Daskalaki, with whom he was at estrangement at the time, the president persisted with targeted questions on many issues arising from the case file as well as from what Rula Pispirigou herself claims.

Chairman: You told us that at the end of November 2019 you arrested Iris. Malena had died in April 2019. Since the loss of Malena, how did you get into the process so quickly of going to the next child? Did you think that this would help you and the relationship with Mr. Daskalakis? I want you to explain to me your own process to go to the third birth.

Defendant: My will had to do with not accepting the loss of Malena. It was my will to become a mother again, not to fill Malena’s void, but I was used to the two children. I really wanted it because I loved the children, it has nothing to do with my relationship with Mr. Daskalakis, I separate him and our relationship from the children.

President: Did you ever think that Iris would replace Malena?

Accused: That is not possible, but her arrival was a great joy in the house. It was also the fact that Iris looked like Malena. We used to say that Malena left and Iris came.

However, the accused received many questions and about Georgina’s psychology after the second loss she experiencedwhen after losing Malena he also lost six-month-old Iris.

President: After the loss of Iris, didn’t you consider it necessary for the child to go to a psychologist?

Accused: She had the school.

President: Shouldn’t you do something to this child to strengthen his psyche?

Defendant: We didn’t.

President: What was the child’s behavior after the death of Malena and what after the death of Iris?

Accused: In Iris she was more aloof. However, the child did not express himself in either of the two losses.

President: After Malena’s death, how was she at school? Did he feel like doing something?

Defendant: She had no problem with her activities, nothing changed in her behavior, she was monitored by the school psychologist. Right after Malena’s death in 99% of the conversations, he said “I want a little brother.”

Chairman: The school principal told the investigator that Georgina was visiting him with her best friend in his office at school because she didn’t want him to feel alone. Did you know this?

Defendant: No. What I know is what Georgina used to say that on rainy days she would go with her friend and sit in the manager’s office or in the canteen.

Referring to the relationship with her estranged husband, the accused reiterated that “We were two very intense characters, we would blow each other up and then say sorry to each other. I have made a huge mistake. Now I understand that I was dragged into this marriage. “. The following dialogue with the president followed:

President: And the children?

Accused: No, I will I thank him for my whole life. They were the best gifts of my life.

President: On 6.4.2021 your sister is also looking for you and tells you to go home and not to abandon your child. You told us you were so overprotective of Georgina. For what reason do you choose to be away from your child when a few days ago your other child has gone missing? (Iris) And you had also turned off your cell phone. Can you explain to me how you did that?

Accused: I got into a very bad situation that day. The pressure was unbearable. I couldn’t handle Iris’ death and my relationship with Mano. I wanted time and I knew that the child is in good hands with my mother. Now from then on I’m not a saint, I’ve made mistakes. It was a wrong thought to isolate myself from everyone. I was confused, I made this isolation wrong. I thought of my child afterwards. That I should turn back and I did.

President: Why did you isolate yourself from the child? This year why couldn’t you find them with your child? He was the last of the three left alive…

Accused: When someone is isolated they want to lash out, I didn’t want Georgina to hear me scream and cry, I was drowning.

Chairman: Did it ever cross your mind that something might happen to your child that day and you weren’t there?

Defendant: No.

The president also asked about April 8, 2021, the day Georgina’s path to death began, when she was admitted to Karamandanio and a few days later suffered the setback that left her with quadriplegia. Pispirigou said:

President: I want you to tell me in detail what happened on the morning of April 8. Whose idea was it to take her to Karamandanio? Why didn’t you call your pediatrician who you had for 8 years as you told us?

Accused: Because the pediatrician had told Mr. Daskalakis that after the losses of Iris and Malena she did not want to continue monitoring Georgina for psychological reasons

President: What doctor refuses an emergency?

Defendant: Since Manos had informed me and told me that he did not want to continue, it did not occur to me to call her.

President: In the midst of covid how did you think to take her with a stomach ache and no fever to the hospital? The recommendation was to go to the hospital as an emergency

Accused: She had told us that she also had a pain like a bomb in her back. Georgina didn’t go to the doctors and when we asked her if she wanted us to go to the hospital she said yes. That’s where you start to worry.

The president then pointed out contradictions in the statements and the memorandum submitted by the defendant regarding the times when the child manifested the first episodes. “I wasn’t reading the memos,” answered Rula Pispirigou.

Chairman: Is what you told a doctor that Georgina had found the family’s baby dead true?

Accused: No that was another lie I heard, Georgina was asleep.

President: What reason did the doctor have to say that if you haven’t?

Accused: I explained to you the whole context of the publicity, What everyone was coming out and saying…. They were taking things from television and putting them in their deposits.

Answering other questions, the accused said that, while Georgina was in the outpatient clinic, she was in tension with Manos Daskalakis. She mentioned, in fact, that during those hours she first called a lawyer she had hired and then the father of her child.

President: In this climate of anxiety, shouldn’t your hand automatically go to the father of the child and not to the lawyer?

Defendant: No. I got the lawyer to call him because he wasn’t answering me, because of the tension we had.

President: Tell us about the message to your sister on 8.4.2021 asking her if Manos wears a wedding ring and if he has blocked you on Facebook?

Accused: I had been told that they had seen Mano in a cafe where he was working making out with another woman and not wearing a wedding ring.

Chairman: Why were you interested after you were separated? And especially on the day the child was in the hospital?

Accused: (irritated) I got this information that day. I sent these messages after the doctors had reassured us and told us that Georgina will be admitted for preventive tests. It was the wrong time. I tell you again that I have made mistakes but that does not mean that I did not care about my children or that I have done what I am accused of.

Rula Pispirigou denied the statements of nurses who said that she was walking slowly to the nurses when the child was having seizures. “That’s not the case, I was yelling and ran out of the room immediately to give notice.”

She was also asked about Georgina’s paintings, after the death of Maleni, in which dark colors etc. appear, and she answered that they particularly troubled her.