Lignadi trial: What did the 27-year-old who complains of rape testify in the Mixed Jury?

The testimony of the first man who reported Dimitris Lignadis to the prosecutor’s office for a criminal act of rape was heard by judges and jurors of the Mixed Jury Court.

The 27-year-old, of Egyptian origin, who ascended the witness stand, complains that in 2011, when he was 16 years old, he was raped by the prominent artist, whom he had approached in order to help him get involved in the field of Art.

According to the witness, a permanent resident abroad who traveled to Greece to testify in the actor’s trial, decided to sue the accused when, last year, he saw the first interview – a man complaining against the then head of the National Theater for sexual violence concerning the year 1995.

“… I showed more interest in the matter and realized that the accused had an action for a long time. And I felt I had to file a lawsuit because I went through the same thing. “I sought to find a lawyer to help me,” said the 27-year-old, who later said that in 2011 “I did not have the guts to sue. “My parents were immigrants, they would kill me first and then the accused himself.”

According to the witness, in 2010, because he learned from his cousin about “an actor he met in Agios Pavlos and was looking for young people to make them actors”, he sent a friend request to Dimitris Lignadis and he accepted it immediately. “I texted him and told him I wanted to be an actor. I was very happy to see him answer me positively and tell me that “you are very beautiful, you are a doll”. He told me to tell them up close to see what we can do. “

Referring to the first meeting he had with the accused, the victim, he said that she was at the Airport from where he asked the artist to go and pick up the one who was returning from Egypt and his friends who had gone to receive him.

“He came and picked us up from the airport and we went to the Olympic Village where I was staying,” said the 27-year-old, who went on to say that when his friends left, Dimitris Lignadis stayed at home and became more diffuse towards him: He was telling me what a doll you are. You will become famous. That’s how it all started … “.

The 27-year-old said that when he saw that the actor adopted purely sexual behavior, he told him that he did not like what was happening and so the actor left, feeling ashamed of himself, as he mentioned in court.

According to the 27-year-old, the second meeting was after the end of a show he went with his friends, invited by the artist, so they accepted the actor’s invitation to go to his house. There he offered them food, drinks and cannabis cigarettes and later, as he testified, suggested that they go to the bedroom. “It made me feel uncomfortable and we decided to leave,” he said.

Answering questions from the president, the 27-year-old said that he had trusted the actor whom “I had seen as a teacher, I did not want to say no to him”.

Chairman: After you tell us that until then no door had been “opened” for you. Why was he your teacher and mentor?

Witness: A 14-year-old when he sees a performance of a famous actor, who promised to put him in the space έκανε He made me trust him. That’s why I trusted him that I could go to his house.

Chairman: Why do you call him a “teacher” since he did not help you?

Witness: I expected it to happen, he had taken on this role.

Chairman: But you also insisted, you had said that you also sent him messages. To whom would the accused know you?

Witness: He told me that he would take me to Rouvas and Mazonakis.

Chairman: A year passed did not make an impression on you that did not go?

Witness: I did not think he would take me.

The 27-year-old described the day of his rape at the home of the accused, emphasizing that everything happened after consuming alcohol and cigarettes and after he lost consciousness and felt completely weak, “I could not stand,” he said characteristically. The next day, he said, he woke up at the home of the missing artist. “I wanted to run out. I got dressed very quickly, I did not see him in the living room and I opened the door and left. I did not say anything to anyone, I did not know what had happened … “.

He received questions from the Headquarters why he did not go to a doctor to find out exactly what happened to him and if his health was in danger. “I was not concerned about my health, I was concerned about my psychology, what I had been through. It took me many years to manage this thing on my own. “It affected my nature, I started to feel guilty, that I did something wrong, that I should not have called him,” he replied.

Continuing his testimony, the witness said that the accused called him after a few days “as if nothing had happened” and that he angrily replied “do not take me again, I will sue you. Do not bother me anymore “. According to the 27-year-old, the accused, asking him not to sue him, told him that he is seriously ill with laryngeal cancer and that his mother also has cancer. “I did not have the guts to sue then. My parents were immigrants, they would kill me first and then him. I said keep it to myself. I have rights, but then I did not know much .. I could not sue him, I was afraid of him. “I wanted to push him away.”

President: Now that years have passed, what do you think?

Witness: He took advantage of me, he gave me the little fish to pull me out, he took advantage of my innocence. I had no experience with anything and obviously he saw that and I was the right victim ..

President: It seemed that he did not understand what you had told him. Didn’t that scare you?

Witness: I did not think he would rape me, one no is one no. I did not know that a person could do such a thing to a child, whatever he said I laughed, I did not take it seriously.

The witness stated that when he saw the photo of the accused, after the case was made public, he realized that everything that happened to Dimitris Lignadis “was a nightmare that I did not want to think about”.

The trial will continue tomorrow.

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