The video presented by SKAI and brings to light the circumstances under which a 36-year-old woman was fatally swept away on the road to Anopolis in Heraklion, Crete.

In the video, it appears that the driver of the vehicle initially maintains a distance from the 36-year-old’s car and shortly before the woman gets out of it, he backs off a few meters. When the 36-year-old opens the door of her vehicle and gets out of it, it seems to start and fall violently on her. The impact is so severe that the body of the 36-year-old woman ends up several meters away, while the I.X. turns over.

Beware of harsh images

According to information, the 33-year-old perpetrator, a French national, shortly after 12:00 noon driving the car depicted in the video, dragged the 36-year-old woman away resulting in her fatal injury and then crashed into her vehicle. He fled in an unknown direction, was searched for, located and arrested after immediate action by the officers of the Hersonissos Police Department. From the evidence of the preliminary investigation so far (video material), there are indications of criminal activity and the possibility of homicide is being considered.

What did the perpetrator claim?

It appears from the police investigation that the 33-year-old did not know the victim. According to information, he is said to be delirious and claimed that it was not clear to him whether the person who hit him was a man or a woman and that it seemed to him that it was someone who had abused him in his country.

He was transferred on December 12 to a psychiatric clinic but was not hospitalized

In fact, it seems that on December 12, the perpetrator was transferred from the Rethymnon police station for a psychiatric examination to the G.N. psychiatric clinic. Rethymno to execute a prosecutor’s order. However, it was deemed that the conditions for his hospitalization were not met and he was not hospitalized.