Subject in “Le Monde” by Roula Pispirigou: Greece is raging against “Medea of ​​Patras”

Reportage on case-thriller of the three dead children in Patras and Roula Pispirigou hosted by the French newspaper Le Monde on its website.

The French instrument speaks of a frenzy in Greece due to the case and the suspicions that weigh on her for the poisoning of her nine-year-old daughter, Georginanoting that the case reveals -among other things- the gaps regarding child protection.

Her report French newspaper notes that the “Medea of ​​Patras”, as the Greek media call it, categorically denies the accusations from its cell in Korydallos.

He also reminds that the necropsy and the toxicological examinations revealed the presence in the body of Georgina a large amount of ketamine, a powerful painkiller, also sold on the black market as a medicine. Georgina was in the hospital, alone with her mother, in a room. He died just twenty minutes after the administration of the substance, despite the fact that the nurses had visited her an hour before, as a result of which legal proceedings were initiated against the mother. By April 2021, Georgina had already been hospitalized due to seizures that had left her quadriplegic. The start of the homicide prosecution also rekindled the search for Roula Pispirigou’s other two daughters, one of whom died at the age of 3.5 years three years ago of “liver failure” and the other in March 2021 at the age of 6 months. , due to “suffocation”, according to the reports of the medical examiners.

The French newspaper also mentions the opening of Georgina’s grave for the removal of the tablet that Pispirigou put there, in the angry crowd that gathered outside the courthouse in Athens against the 33-year-old, in the black letters “Death to the pedophiles” in facade of her house in Patras.

At the same time, it hosts statements by the professor of Criminology at Panteion, Efi Lambropoulou, about a frenzy unprecedented for Greece, as “cases of pedophilia are rare in Greece and the emotional charge is very intense.” She expresses concern over the frenzy of the Greek media and the “hooligans of public opinion”, who rush to condemn Pispirigou before the court rules: “The daily revelations, the various testimonies, the constant comments on social networks undermine the . “Only the public media are obliged by law in Greece to respect this presumption, not the private channels. This is problematic!”, He says in the French newspaper.

It also hosts statements by the professor of Criminology at Panteion, Efi Lambropoulou, about a frenzy unprecedented in Greece, as “pedophilia cases are rare in Greece and the emotional charge is very intense.” She expresses concern over the frenzy of the Greek media and the “hooligans of public opinion”, who rush to condemn Pispirigou before the court rules: “The daily revelations, the various testimonies, the constant comments on social networks undermine the . “Only the public media are obliged by law in Greece to respect this presumption, not the private channels. This is problematic!”, He says in the French newspaper.

Behind this drama, several questions also begin to emerge. “Did the medical examiners adequately investigate the causes of death of the first two children? “Know that in half of the public hospitals there is not even a medical examiner”, the criminologist underlines.

The article refers to a report by the Ombudsman that speaks of a serious understaffing of social services in Greece, after a decade of financial crisis and budget cuts, a lack of sufficient capacity that probably explains why social services did not intervene when a child protection group He accused Pispirigou and Daskalakis of abuse in the Authorities in 2014. And he quotes the opinion of the lawyer Maria Andrianaki, according to which the “lack of psychologists is alarming, who could sound the alarm in cases of abuse”.

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