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Trial of Petros Filippidis: The first witness will be examined in camera by the lawyers of both sides

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With the doors closed of the Mixed Jury Court continues today, Friday, the testimony of the first of the three actors who accuse their colleague Petros Filippidis of serious acts of sexual violence.

The trial today, the third trial in the case, is expected to begin with the examination by the lawyers of the Civil Education and Defense of the woman who according to the case file was continuously raped in 2008. According to the witness, the accused attacked her. sexually in the cauldron of the “Ivi” theater, where they had met for business reasons. In fact, the witness has claimed that three months earlier this incident had been preceded by another sexual assault by the actor in the office of a theater company.

The woman began to testify without publicity during the previous trial, after the court accepted her request as well as one of the three alleged victims.

The prominent actor is expected to be present in court today, as he was during the previous trial, when he was transferred from Korydallos prison where he was transferred from Tripoli prison a few days before the trial began. The accused was absent from the bench at the beginning of the trial citing health reasons.

In camera he is expected to testify and the second of three women who complain about the actor, while in a public procedure the third alleged victim will give her testimony. According to the two actors who are going to testify, the famous artist tried to rape them, in 2010 one in his dressing room and in 2014 the other in his car. And these witnesses reported to the authorities that they had met with the accused for business reasons.

Petros Filippidis denies the allegationsclaiming that the complainants are aiming for their personal promotion by slandering him.

Present at the trial of the actor are in every trial his colleagues, some of whom are witnesses who have been appointed by the three alleged victims of the accused. The wife and son of the accused are also present.

The trial of Petros Filippidis coincides again to be held in a room next to the one where the trial of Dimitris Lignadis continues, which today proceeds with the examination of the second man who accuses the artist of rape.

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