“They baptize me submissive and without will because I support him and sit next to him. I support him, I love him deeply, we’ve been together for 33 years. I know him! He is not rapist. We created a family. Peter is a bright man who has defects like all of us, “said in her testimony before the Mixed Circuit Court of Appeal in Peter Filippides’ trial for two attempts at rape, his wife, Hope Ninou.

The witness said that the artist “has no dark appearance”, as other witnesses said about the accused, while stressing that “they have all swell and put everything in a huge dimension. He is a theater worker. It has never exceeded the boundaries. “

At the start of her deposition, Mrs Ninou expressed her “complaint”, as she said, about her treatment of some because of her choice to support her husband in the case that brought him before justice.

“People who have flagged the woman treat me like a boxing sack in a vulgar and immoral way,” he said, stating that “I know him well, I love him and stand by him with a choice to climb this Calvary. I do what I can and I accept that some people do not understand it but to respect my choice. Everyone can judge me but not mock me and abuse me both in and out of the room. I can’t accept this abuse anymore. “

President: You are a witness and as you understand you will accept criticism. We cannot prohibit questions. It is necessary to become. Like the other witnesses have suffered the suffering …

The witness was called upon to respond to what has been said in the trial of Petros Filippides’ “irritable character” and the “behavioral boundaries” exceeded.

Witness: is deeply emotional man and artist. In our personal lives he never shouted, neither to me nor to our son. There were no extremes.

President: Did you know about his intense behaviors in the field?

Witness: He is an artist, he loves theater very much. He is a charismatic man and was born for it. It is his natural space and is a perfectionist. They call him a metronome because the rhythm is very important. Is imaginative, it is demanding but with a limit. He is not a man who arrives at the edges.

President: Extraordinary has been terminated here.

Witness: He wants to speak and say his opinion unfiltered.

President: Here he has been heard about another dark side.

Witness: He doesn’t. He is spontaneous and shows his feeling. They have all inflated and have put everything into a huge dimension. He is a theater worker.

Mrs Ninou testified that she has been in the artistic space for 40 years as a dancer and choreographer and that she has been together since 1994.

The process continues.

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