Lawyer Nikos Dialinas made a speech about "international circuit", who has been called to legally support the 24-year-old, who reported a rape in a hotel suite in Thessaloniki.
Referring to the evidence from Cyprus, the lawyer said that "there were Cypriots at the party in question and also there were girls who came from Cyprus. These are not local phenomena, they are international" and asked the Greek authorities to move quickly.
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"The matter takes on other dimensions" said Mr. Dialinas, adding that it was a pimping and drug ring. In fact, he called it "unacceptable that the toxicology reports have not been released after 20 days."
"The answer will be given by the director of the toxicology laboratory. Is it possible for the Greek state to send tests to Switzerland?"" she asked, while she also wondered "how it is possible for other women to talk since these conditions exist."
"I know that there are various fishermen who fish for little girls, take them where they need to go. Free drinks, big life. Then comes coke, addiction and prostitution," he said.
When asked about the testimony of the 27-year-old, who was arrested in the case, that it was all done with the girl's consent, he replied, "With a period?"
The 24-year-old's "thank you" for her support
[BR]The 24-year-old's lawyer, Thanasis Ziogas, a day after she gave an interview describing the circumstances of her rape, sent her message to the people who support her.
"Georgia thanks you very much, I thank you very much because my appeal was answered and I am in a position that this cooperation will bear fruit and results in society. I think we are doing well, but keep criticizing, the enemy of the good is the best," Thanasis Ziogas said, speaking on ANT1's morning show.
Georgia's new testimony on Friday - "Key" the second man in suite 602
Repeated invitations to private parties, offers of drugs and intense pressure via text messages and phone calls regarding her presence at them are described in her statements to investigating authorities, 24-year-old Georgia Bika, the girl who was raped on New Year's Eve in a luxury hotel suite in Thessaloniki.
On the pages of her testimonies, which were published by protothema.gr, the nightmarish moments that she experienced in room 602 of the hotel in Thessaloniki are revived on the one hand, and on the other hand, revealing details of the actions of the persons involved in the complex case, which is being investigated thoroughly and in every direction by the police and judicial authorities.
The victims
Besides, the 24-year-old girl's aim is to get justice for what she suffered, as she herself stated, but also to encourage other victims to "break" their silence by denouncing similar behaviour. Against the background of the stormy developments, the mouths are slowly opening in Thessaloniki, according to the defense lawyer of the 24-year-old, Thanasis Ziogas, who announced yesterday that two other girls fled to his office to denounce what they experienced in 2016 and 2018, having been raped "in the same way", as Mr. Meanwhile, the 24-year-old girl referred to the practice of a "group" to the investigating authorities, specifically describing the role of the alleged "host" of the New Year's Eve party, M P. "I have heard that M works in the same way with other girls. He may do it deliberately and invite them to various parties held at hotels or rental houses," testified Georgia Bika, while adding about him that "he has asked me at an earlier party in 2021 if I want to use drugs, specifically cocaine, to offer me and I told him no." Furthermore, in her statement she claims that "he has invited me four other times to such parties. In some that I have not been to he insisted that I go", reflecting the frequency of the parties.
At the same time, in her additional statement to the authorities, the 24-year-old girl identified B L as the man who asked her to sleep with her and insisted against her will, she simply did not remember, as she says, what happened afterwards, while also testifying to the existence of a second man in her rape room. "The two men took advantage of my weakness due to excessive alcohol consumption. I do not know if my drink contained any other substance," the victim pointed out.
The second person
Given that a new testimony, the fourth in a row, of Georgia Bika is imminent, probably on Friday and in the presence of a psychologist, it is not excluded that the 24-year-old girl will identify a second person who acted in her rape, according to her lawyer. "With the new evidence coming to her mind, another person may be identified," Ziogas explained.
"I only remember that one of the two men was young with relatively short blond hair, had blue eyes and told me in good Greek that he was from Athens. The other one I cannot remember at all, as, as I told you above, I was in a state of intoxication. Also, I do not remember anything from the moment I met the two men what happened and where they took me, "described Georgia Bika in her testimony, while sporadically since then return her memories of the abhorrent event.
Signs of violence
Regarding the content of the forensic examination, the 24-year-old girl's lawyer argued that "there are signs of violence, because, as she claimed, since she was not aware of what was happening, she was not able to put up any resistance." In particular, Thanasis Ziogas, said that the examination of the young woman shows bruises on the left and right thigh, the first and fourth quadrants and the midsection, while the forensic doctor signed that it is not excluded that lewd acts were committed during intercourse.
Mr. Ziogas also estimated that the notification of the result of the toxicological examination, which is expected at the beginning of next week at the latest, is in the final stage. Its result, however, is what is expected to largely decide the fate of the case and especially of the alleged perpetrators, as in case Georgia Bika's allegations about the administration of drugs or other substances by the perpetrators in her drink are confirmed, this will mean an upgrade of the indictment and consequently their sentences.
Lifting on mobile phones
In another level of the investigations, the prosecutor requested yesterday that the young girl's phone privacy be lifted in order to examine text messages and phone calls received by the 24-year-old, at a time when "I pledged to produce the phone calls on her cell phone and the content of the messages inviting her to return to the party," her lawyer stressed.
Meanwhile, the intervention of the Prosecutor's Office was prompted yesterday by the 24-year-old girl's complaint, during her interview with the website zougla.gr, that the lawyer, who was at the Security Department to represent the alleged rapist, attacked her. Specifically, the head of the prosecutor's office asked the Criminal Prosecutor to order a preliminary examination to determine whether the crime of "attempted unlawful violence" against lawyer Theophilos Alexopoulos is established. Following this, the 24-year-old woman, the police officers who were present at the police station will be called to testify, while the lawyer is expected to testify anonymously.
"At the station I was alone. Defenseless. I didn't have my lawyer because he was away on a trip. There was only the opposing side. There was their lawyer, who also attacked me. The police officers took him out of the room because he was addressing me and trying to make me back off," the 24-year-old stresses in her interview, while for the identity of the lawyer, she says it was "Mr. Alexopoulos."
For his part, lawyer Theophilos Alexopoulos denies the allegations of 24-year-old Georgia Bika. "At no point in the preliminary investigation and never to date have I been in contact with the complainant whom I do not know, and certainly the alleged verbal assault never happened not only because it is illegal but mainly because it does not reflect my principles and my ethics, my human-centered approach to the profession I practice and the respect I owe and always show to all parties to the trial," he said, among other things, in a statement. Alexopoulos, while earlier yesterday the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance proceeded to suspend the party status of Mr. Alexopoulos.
"Mr. Theofilos Alexopoulos as a lawyer has the self-evident right and obligation to choose to whom he will provide his legal services. As a member of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, however, he cannot be involved in rape victim allegations of "victim blaming", which come into frontal conflict with the moral and value load of the party and the Left, "said the Prefectural Committee of SYRIZA-PS A Thessaloniki, concluding that "for this reason, the party membership of Mr. Theofilos Alexopoulos is suspended until the full clarification of the case."
Source: protothema.gr
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