of Elena Galaris

The actor is sitting on the bench of the appellate court Petros Filippidis accused of two rape attempts against two of his female colleagues in 2010 and 2014, for which he has been sentenced to 8 years of suspended imprisonment by the trial court.

The first witness testified was the complainant who claims that the actor had tried to rape her in 2010 in a theater dressing room.

” He had stopped me. I fended him off, pushed him away with my foot. “Don’t shout, there’s no one in the theater,” he told me. I begged him to open the door for me. He told me that if I went through the door there was no going back and that as long as he could easily build someone’s career, just as easily he could destroy it,” said the witness who noted in her testimony:

“I’m not coming here to take revenge, to get rid of Mr. Filippidis. I’m coming to inform the world what has happened and to make an example of similar people who act like this.

The reaction of the lawyers in support of the charge was caused by the questions of the district attorney, especially when he asked the complainant to sit next to the accused in order to represent how she sat during the attack she claims to have received.

The second complainant will testify behind closed doors as the court accepted the request of her lawyers.

Petros Filippides has denied the charges against him, declares his innocence and claims that the complaints were made because he did not give roles to the actresses.