Her intervention of the Supreme Court caused by yesterday’s decision of the prosecutor and investigator not to remand the well-known criminologist Apostolos Lytraswho confessed during his plea to beating his wife, despite the felony charge of grievous bodily harm.

The President and his Prosecutor Supreme Court they request a disciplinary investigation for the investigator and the prosecutor who gave the opinion, because it is a serious crime, which the perpetrator confessed to.

On the other hand, the reasoning behind the decision of the investigator and prosecutor was that the accused fulfills the two formal conditions of the law in order not to be remanded in custody: He is not suspected of fleeing, he is not suspected of committing new criminal acts, he confessed to the crime, requested psychological support, the the victim herself told the investigator about a single incident of domestic violence, and the ex-wife retracted her previous complaint of abuse.

What the victim testified

“I was screaming for help and begging him to stop while my face was full of blood and I was swallowing it and I felt like I was choking. He drove me home. When I went inside with all the strength I had because I was very dizzy and very beaten, I told him I was going to wash. When I went up to the room in order to get the panic button that is connected to the alarm and rings directly to the police, he caught up with me and took it and continued to hold my cell phone,” Mr. Lytra’s wife said in her testimony.

“We entered the Euroclinic entrance together. I said I want to be seen by an ER doctor because I’ve hit my head. The doctor took me straight to the examination room alone and did not allow my husband to enter. A nurse came along. As soon as the nurse approached me, I immediately told her that my husband has hit me. That I’m afraid of him too and I told the doctor that too. They told me they would call the police… As indeed they did. In October I had asked him to break up but he was not violent even though he was a difficult character” he added.

The timeline of the case

On Sunday night, according to information, the investigator visited the 37-year-old at home and took her statement, where the woman allegedly described her beating by her husband. The defendant’s ex-wife, his eldest daughter and their best man and a lawyer testified as defense witnesses.

It is recalled that initially Apostolos Lytras had made the claim that his wife was injured by falling down the stairs of their home.

The woman had not filed a lawsuit against him. According to information from ERT, the woman reportedly nodded when the doctor asked her if her husband had hit her.

Also, again according to the same information, when the police officers were alone with the woman in the hospital room, they asked her if she wanted a panic button installed on her cell phone and she reportedly answered positively.

The doctor’s role was a catalyst as he reported the case to the police.

THE an arrest was made in the context of the application of a special provision of the Minister of Justice, Giorgos Floridis, which replaced article 23 of Law 3500/2006 “on domestic violence” and was passed last February together with the amendments to the Criminal Code.