Topaloudi Trial: Mutual accusations between the perpetrators for her murder-The dialogues in court

Keeping the role for everyone of the less responsible who was trying to stop the violence of the other, apologized before the Mixed Jury Court of Appealthe two accused for brutal sexual abuse and murder of student Eleni Topaloudiwhose lifeless body was found floating on Fokia beach in Rhodes on the morning of November 28, 2018.

The two almost peers of the victim accused, sentenced in the first instance to life and to an additional 15 years eachobserved before the appellate court the same attitude they had during their apologies to the MOD.

The 24-year-old Roditis and his 23-year-old co-accused of Albanian origin apologized today for what they are accused of in connection with the martyrdom of Eleni Topaloudi at the cottage of the first accused. Absent from today’s “difficult” day for them, the student’s two parents.

The two young defendants, despite dozens of questions from the Court, did not change their attitude from the beginning, blaming each other.

The first to apologize was the oldest defendant, a descendant of a wealthy family from Rhodes, who at the beginning of his apology stressed that “It’s not my fault, I did not even touch her”. The 24-year-old initially said that Eleni only met his 23-year-old boyfriend, but later said that he had sex with her and then said that “I was watching TV” and that he left the 21-year-old with the other defendant.

The following are the dialogues in court

-President: Did he find you girls? (the 23-year-old defendant).

Defendant: No, he did not find girlfriends in each other.

President: Did you have a relationship?

Defendant: I had Ornella. He said kind words about me. We had a relationship for six months, we lived either in her house or in mine. I had other relationships, with Annabelle I had gone to England with her, I had some other relationships, I do not remember.

President: Do you want to tell us something else about your previous life?

Defendant: No. I was bye

President: That is?

Defendant: No straight, bisexual

President: Explain to us ..

Defendant: You may like any man.

President: Do you go with men?

Defendant: Not only with women. Not my fault..

President: That is not convincing, do not say that.

Defendant: I did not rape her.

According to the apology of the accused Roditis, his co-accused brutally hit Eleni, with punches and an iron, and that after they took her to the steep beach together, the 23-year-old threw her on the cliff.

President: Didn’t he want to have sex with both of them?

Defendant: He wanted it.

President: If she wanted to, why did you hit her?

Defendant: He hit her.

President: It is not possible for him to do this alone, you must have helped him. A girl died torturously, she testified in your arms.

Defendant: I did not even touch her.

President: He could not do it alone.

Defendant: He could …

President: How was the strangulation done? By himself;

Defendant: Yes. I do not remember strangling her.

President: Sir, he could not do it alone, Eleni reacted.

Defendant: Did not react…

President: Was she waiting to be killed?

Defendant: Wait.

President: What did you do?

Defendant: I was just watching.

President: What did you see?

Defendant: To hit her and I told him “stop”.

President: Did you throw her into the sea?

Defendant: He threw her, he was alone. Then we went home we cleaned, it was full of blood. I wish I had helped more.

The second defendant at the beginning of his apology apologized to Eleni’s parents, saying, with tears in his eyes, that with what happened three families were destroyed, with Eleni’s family worse than all. “I wish they would forgive me one day,” the accused said.

According to him, it was the 24-year-old who first hit Eleni and that he himself intervened and held her hands when the victim started shouting that he would go to the Police. “There I made the mistake … I was holding her by the hands and (the 24-year-old) was hitting her on the legs. We were holding her hands and he went and brought two knives, one for me, so that he would not report us to the police … Then he went and brought the iron. I tell him you overdid it, let it be. I was afraid that (Eleni) would go and report us. “I made the mistake of supporting my friend.”

President: Did you punch her?

Defendant: At first yes. I was wrong.

President: Who tightened her neck?

Defendant: M. (Roditis defendant) Then Eleni fainted. I lost them, I panicked. I said to him “what are we doing?”.

President: In your hands the girl testified, this is not sex…

Defendant: There was consensus … I had to react differently. First of all, we should not share a girl. I want to give this message to young children, that no one should share his girlfriend, that he should respect his girlfriend.

President: Yes. Bad things happened here.

Defendant: The worst. They will haunt me for a lifetime.

Congressman: Who threw it first on the cliff?

Defendant: Both but then M. came down because he fell on the rocks.

Attendee: Was she alive? What condition was it in?

Defendant: I thought he was going to die by the time we got to the hospital.

Congressman: Did he have no signs of life?

Defendant: She was unconscious…

Congressman: But he went down the stairs of the house.

Defendant: Yes.

Attendant Next and logical with what he had suffered to be in bad shape. So you knew he was not dead…

Defendant: I thought he was dying…

The trial will continue on May 12, when the seat prosecutor will speak.

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