The hearing at the beginning of the first testimony entered today, after three previous interruptions, the trial In front of him Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of two accused for rape and murder of Eleni Topaloudi τον November of 2018 in Rose.
The student’s parents were absent from the court today, as they had informed during the previous trial, due to fatigue, who asked to testify on March 28. Thus, the court proceeded with the examination of the medical examiner who performed the necropsy-necropsy on the body of the victim and the Coast Guard who dealt with the case as soon as the “corpse of an unknown woman” was found floating on Fokia beach in Lindos.
He was present at today’s trial, together with the 26-year-old Roditi co-accused who is present from the beginning of the trial, the 24-year-old of Albanian origin accusedwho had not asked to be transferred the previous times.
The youngest in age accused stated that he came to the trial for the first time today to “tell you the truth how the events happened. I will accept my responsibilities “. He even had a dialogue with the president when he added that “I came with all due respect to your court to tell the facts as they happened. “There was this delay, but the lawyer I had originally appointed did not have time to study the case file.”
– President: A month and did not catch up?
– Defendant: That’s what he told me.
– President: However, confessing the truth is a way of recovery.
– Defendant: Yes, I want to work with your court.
Chairman: We will see that.
The court rejected the request of Roditis, accused of conducting a psychiatric examination, while reserving a decision to summon the victim’s friends and examine the student’s electronic files.
THE medical examiner Panagiotis Kotretsos testified in court that from necropsy found from the beginning criminal act. According to the witness, from the necropsy and then the autopsy “the findings shouted for criminal action. There were scratches on the neck it was from a sharp instrument. “There were also bruises on the neck of the neck that showed an attempt to strangle him”, adding that he found serious blows to the head.
Mr. Kotretsos testified that cause of death was the drowning: “There were findings of drowning. Head injuries, as I said, could be potentially fatal. “But they did not catch it because the drowning took place.”
Chairman: If he went to the hospital?
Witness: He would enter the ICU without knowing if he would live.
Answering a question from the president, the witness said that Eleni was transported by two people, in her arms, to the top of the cliff from where she was thrown into the sea.
Chairman: Were the skull injuries done for forced sex?
Witness: I can not know that. The fact that the injuries were multiple shows, to say the least, torture. You torture the other like that, even if you do not want to killings? There is no consent to death.
Chairman: What does the presence of so much blood in all areas, in the bathroom, in the room tell us?
Witness: Characteristic of head injuries is the large blood loss. The fact that the blood was in different places shows that it is something that lasts longer than what we call “a moment”, as well as that there was movement.
Chairman: Does it show that a battle took place?
Witness: This case shows an extremely inhuman behavior, there was no trace of humanism. Take a body and throw it away? There was no consent, any sexual act that results in death can not have consent.
The Coast Guard member of the Special Forces Mission Squad, Thomas Zovas, testified that he identified the body from the tattoo that the unfortunate student had on her leg, addressing tattoo shop owners and immediately began collecting camera material as the The 21-year-old left no doubt that he had a crime in front of him. “From the cameras – said the witness – only two cars seemed to pass that day. “Such a car also appeared in the video below Eleni’s house, and that is where the case began to unfold”.
The Coast Guard stressed that neither of the two defendants was cooperative in the beginning and that then the younger one told a version of what happened on the fateful night, telling them that after he had intercourse with Eleni she refused to go with him. Roditi. “She told us that they both beat her, because she told them that she would go to the police. She told us that one was holding her and the other was beating her. From the findings it seemed that the girl has been beaten very badly είπε She told us that then they decided to finish her. They also took the knife to stab her but it went wrong because “it was thick”, that’s how he told me, exactly. We went to the spot with the 24-year-old, although he did not know the route well and after an effort we found the cliff where they threw her. She told me that they threw her together and then returned to clean the house … “.
The port officer, stating that inside the house, a cottage that belonged to Roditis’s family, “became a massacre” said that he estimates that the girl “was hit moving … I’m talking to you about difficult situations, torture … It’s a beacon light, what happened. The girl was pressured to have sex with both of them, she resisted and they crippled her “.
The trial is set to begin on March 28.
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