He was arrested at noon on Thursday the estranged husband of the 40-year-old woman for the murder of in the middle of the road at Menidi.

According to information, the man was arrested near a building in Fyli.

The images recorded shortly after the brutal murder of the 40-year-old woman in Menidi, just a few meters away from her home, are shocking. The 40-year-old had reported her husband three times for domestic violence. The victim’s daughter is a tragic figure, who saw her mother covered in blood in the middle of the road and called someone of hers and told him that dad killed mom.

A new video shows the spot where she fell to her death. The attacker was apparently hiding between the parked cars and suddenly jumped in front of her, according to police sources, and after a conversation he took out a knife and stabbed her in the stomach. In fact, the officers of the Western Attica Security sub-directorate as well as the Criminal Investigations Directorate found the woman with a knife stuck in her abdomen. In the video, the police can be seen collecting the findings from the scene in order to transfer them to the Department of Criminal Investigations and to determine if it is indeed the specific man that all the testimonies and visual material support.

He had been appointed to trial – 3 times subpoenaed

Authorities are looking for the woman’s 50-year-old estranged husband. The 40-year-old had reported her ex-partner for domestic violence at least 3 times in the last 11 years.

  • The first was on April 3, 2013, when the man was arrested and taken to the prosecutor.
  • The second time was on September 18, 2022, when she reported him for threats, bodily harm and verbal abuse. There was already a court decision that forbade him to live with the victim, but she herself had allowed him to do so since 2018.
  • The last complaint was made just 2 days after Easter on May 7, 2024. The case in fact would be tried tomorrow. The woman was given a code for the panic button and was informed of the possibility of being accommodated in a special structure, although she did not want it, she had moved out of the house she lived with the specific man.

According to the report he went to the autoforo and got a reprieve according to the police sources. For their part, the judicial circles report that because it was postponed, there was no possibility of holding them. The police sources underline that according to the new criminal code, he could be set for trial within three days and ordered to be detained so that he is not dangerous for committing similar acts.

What judicial sources say

Valid judicial sources regarding the horrific femicide in Menidi emphasize that based on the new regulations of the new criminal code 5090/2024 which came into force from 1/5 and concern the offenses of domestic violence, the court (Autoforo before which he was referred after the criminal prosecution of the perpetrator) could order the trial of the case within three days and the temporary detention of the perpetrator until the case is tried. Instead, the court set a hearing for 5/17 because the victim did not appear during the trial of Autoforos and the perpetrator was released with restrictive conditions.

According to testimonies, in the last 2 months the 50-year-old was watching his estranged partner.

The authorities are looking for testimonies from residents of the area, as well as footage from security cameras.

“They killed my mom”: Witness describes the dramatic minutes when the victim’s daughter saw her mother covered in blood in Menidi

It shocks eyewitness of the cold-blooded murder of the 40-year-old woman in Menidi as he describes to the dramatic minutes when the victim’s daughter saw her mother covered in blood in the middle of the street.

“They have killed my mom, they have killed my mom,” she shouted over her mother’s lifeless body, while the police identified the unfortunate woman with a photo she was holding.

According to the eyewitness, the young girl told the police and in a phone call she probably had with her brother, “There was domestic violence, maybe my dad killed her. He found her on her way to work.”
“She was devastated, we couldn’t talk to her,” says the witness.

Listen to the testimony: