The temporary detention of the 32-year-old resident of Didymoteichos Evros, who was arrested on August 5 following a complaint by his 32-year-old partner for continuous rape, domestic violence, causing dangerous bodily harm and illegal detention, was decided today – after the defendant’s apology – by the investigator Plemmeliodikon Orestiada with the consent of the prosecutor.

The case file against the 32-year-old was filed on August 2 by police officers of the Didymoteicho Security Department, to whom his partner complained, according to the relevant press release, that “during the period from July 2024 until 2-8-2024 with the use of physical violence forced her to tolerate sexual acts and detained her in one of his houses, in Didymoteicho Evros without her will, while he had removed from her possession her mobile phone and her Police Identity Card”.

According to the same announcement, in the morning hours of August 5, “Policemen of the Didymoteicho Security Department, in cooperation with police officers of the Orestiada Police Department, located and arrested the 32-year-old citizen in Didymoteicho, after thorough investigations, pursuant to a relevant arrest warrant issued by the Deputy Criminal Investigation Orestiadas for the crime of serial rape”.

According to what the defendant’s lawyer, Nikos Ouzounidis, told the Athenian Macedonian News Agency, the 32-year-old denied the charge of rape and illegal detention and admitted-confessed to causing bodily harm and the charge of domestic threat.

“The indictment is essentially four acts, one act of rape is of a felony nature and three other misdemeanors of illegal detention, domestic dangerous bodily harm and domestic threat. The accused denies the charge of rape and illegal detention and accepts-confessed to the physical harm and the threat”, it says.

He notes that during today’s apology process, the investigator, with the consent of the prosecutor, decided on temporary detention and the main factor – according to Mr. Ouzounidis – that led to this decision was “because a warrant had been issued for the accused’s arrest. Therefore, in combination with the acts attributed – and mainly that of rape because this is the felony that justifies the temporary detention – with the issuance of the arrest warrant that shows that the perpetrator is suspected of fleeing, the specific temporary detention warrant was issued.”

Finally, Mr. Ouzounidis states that from the evidence in the case file and from the forensic report issued today, it appears that the main crime – that of rape – does not exist. “There are no traces of rape, the two acts have been confessed, so the defendant will be tried for two misdemeanors,” concludes the 32-year-old’s lawyer.