Her position that her death Malenas Daskalaki due to pathological causes he testified at trial of Roula Pispirigoubefore the MOD for the death of her two youngest daughters, the coroner Christina Tsakona.

The witness, who opens the cycle of coroner’s testimony in the trial, which had several interruptions due to a problem with a member of the bench, had conducted an examination of Malena’s body, ruling that the child’s death, in 2019, was due to liver failure. However, the report of medical examiners Nikos Karakoukis and Nikos Kalogrias does not agree with the scientific assessment of Mrs. Tsakona, who later assessed that Malena, like Irida in 2021, died due to suffocation caused by an external factor. The report of the two medical examiners is what supported the indictment against R. Pispirigou, already sentenced to life for the death of her first-born daughter Georgina.

In her testimony today, Mrs. Tsakona defended the data that led her to the assessment of the causes of Malena’s death, which she attributes to liver failure, not accepting the Karakouki-Kalogria report. He even stated that in case of death by suffocation there would be a finding in the liver. “He would have been recorded in the liver necrosis in Zone three,” he noted, stressing that he did not find any data-findings that would point to asphyxiation.

Answering questions from the headquarters about marks, abrasions, etc., depicted in the photographs of the face of Malena’s corpse, Mrs. Tsakona estimated that they are not injuries but “imprints of adhesive tape that was used for medical manipulation”.

Witness: It is a mark of medical manipulation on the cheek, it is not an injury and the shape resembles an adhesive tape for the placement of a rhinoplasty tube in the context of CPR.