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She pounced like a rabid cat and took out his eye because she thought he was looking at her the wrong way! "Why are you looking at me?" he said and after three repeated attacks he managed to tear out his eye. A case of unthinkable violence in Chania, Crete, featuring a 24-year-old "bully" and a 47-year-old family man who lost his sight because the perpetrator thought he looked at him wrong, protothema.gr presents.
The victim, who lost his sight in his right eye and doctors made 50 stitches to hold the bulb, has filed a lawsuit against him and the case has gone to court. In fact, he says he has decided to take legal action to avoid a vendetta.
His lawyer Yannis Marakakis tells protothema.gr that: "This particular attack is unprovoked with the perpetrator being a very young man who attacks the victim frantically with the sole purpose of removing his eye . The unthinkable is that because he does not succeed immediately he attacks three times in succession by inserting his fingers into the left eye of the victim. He only stopped when he was sure he had blinded the unsuspecting man who was immediately taken to the hospital in Chania unable to believe what had happened to him.There must be an end to the impunity which some people enjoy in Crete. We expect the prosecution to do the obvious."
"Why are you looking at me?"
On January 6, on Christmas Day and while he was preparing to leave the shop where he was with his friends to return to his family, the 47-year-old was attacked. "Why are you looking at me?" said the assailant and pounced on him like a rabid cat to gouge out his eyes... The victim describes to protothema.gr everything he experienced. My eye, although outwardly it is beginning to improve, in reality I have lost all my vision ... " begins his description of the 48-year-old giving the picture of his situation and in the next lines unfolds the chilling scene "At 1:15, I was in a shop with my friends, and we were about to leave to return to our homes, to our families. Suddenly, while we were at the entrance, a foreign worker, an acquaintance of a friend of mine, approached him and asked us to stay in the store because he wanted to buy a drink. My friend refused, telling him that we would leave because we had to return home, but his acquaintance insisted. The Albanian wanted to buy a drink but we were going to bed. And so as he insisted, he started arguing with my friend because he was adamant. He wanted us to stay and buy. We went outside and then the perpetrator, who was in the next shop with his friend and one of them knew the worker, came towards us because they thought there was trouble. And then he taunted me and said "Why are you looking at me like that? Why are you looking at me?". He was looking for trouble... I understood his intentions and I didn't answer him. I turned to my friend, saying "come on let's go to sleep let's go home. And turning my back I was attacked from behind. He lunged at me and stabbed two fingers into my eyes. His finger went into my right eye and then I was pushed and fell down. I got up and tried to run to get away. My friend caught him and pushed him to go further away to get him away. I then got in the way and tried to calm them down, to calm the spirits so we could get up and leave to go home. He pretended to calm down and suddenly started hitting my friend. He punched him and knocked him down. And then I caught him in a headlock and tried to calm him down, telling him "calm down man you don't know who we are. You don't know us. Why are you doing this?"
There were six or seven of them and they jumped on me and started pulling me and then he, he took the opportunity and put his fingers back in my eyes. In the right eye, the bruised one. That's where he was aiming. Then they started pulling me again and I managed to get away..."
Dazed and badly beaten, the 47-year-old was trying to get to his feet. "I tried to lean on something because I couldn't see.... I had realised my eye was damaged," he says."
But the nightmare didn't stop there. It seems the assailant was determined to continue the attack until he unleashed all his brutal instincts on the victim. "I saw him coming at me with an iron to finish me off. That's essentially what he was going to do, finish me off. But I realized it, I backed off and eventually he got one of his own. He hit his own head but he didn't give up. He went to hit me again. I dodged him again and he hit his guy again. I finally managed to get the iron and disarm him. And then I caught him again with a headlock to calm him down. Then two others from his group came and grabbed me, he freed himself and attacked me again."
"I felt the finger go into my skull. My eye went into three pieces."
This, as the 47-year-old describes it, was the third time he tried to pull his eyes out. And he succeeded. "Third time in the eye, the same way. He goes with his finger and took my eye out. He popped my eye out. It came apart in three pieces. I felt his finger go into my skull. I grabbed my eye and pushed it in. This man is dangerous. Before my incident happened, he had been in another store and had bitten a man on the nose. He broke his nose into three pieces. On another occasion he had bitten someone on the eyebrow and another time he had gone into a store with a knife and threatened to slaughter people. He does things like that because he has homicidal tendencies. I went to the hospital and I knew my eye was very badly damaged. As soon as I went in, the doctors told me it was over. Finally there is no way you can ever get your eye fixed, there is no way you can ever see again. I had surgery, they improved my vision but my vision is gone. It's still red, hematomas and horrible pain. The doctors gave me more than 30 stitches on the upper side and another 20 on the lower side."
I sued to prevent a vendetta
The 47-year-old,he says, has decided to take legal action against the man who ripped out his eye because he doesn't want a vendetta.
He says he believes in the authorities and not in the thirst for revenge that opens up feuds and blood cycles. "I have filed a case against the perpetrator while the police have been asleep and on their own initiative. But they have not been able to arrest him due to violation of the auto-custodial period. And now we are at the stage of completing the case file and within the week it will be forwarded to the prosecutor. I decided to talk about everything I suffered so that no other people would be in my position. I have decided to take legal action to ensure that the perpetrator is punished by the justice system and the competent authorities and that there is no feud. They are my extended family and I hold my own people together. I don't believe in violence I believe in justice....."
Source: Proto Thema
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