Two more actors were found today in the of the Athens Mixed Jury Court before which the trial of actor Petros Filippidis for one act of rape and two attempted rapes against the same number of his colleagues continues.
Both witnesses spoke about fear and threats that the second complainant received from the first accused, based on what she had confided to them.
Actresses Tzouli Souma and Andromachi Davlou, who were examined as witnesses at the Athens Mixed Jury Court, spoke about how their young colleague experienced the attack in the accused's dressing room. In fact, Ms. Davlou had to narrate what she had experienced near Petros Filippidis with whom she had worked.
Andromache Davlou testified that in the summer of 2016 the complainant, with whom they had become close a year earlier, visited her because she had just given birth. "At some point I say to my child "my child, my child, my child, my child, which is what Filippidis says (ed: a line he used in a TV series)". That's when it got dark. He tells me not to say that to the child. Don't use his words. I say is he hitting on you? Because he's hitting on me too. No he tells me, something more" described the witness and reported what her friend and colleague confided to her.
Her experience with the director
She then spoke about her own experience when, she said, she refused to respond to the defendant's call and he "cut" her from the series she was acting in.
"I told her that in 2000 he invited me to the series 'The Key' to do a small role. We were going for the shoot. We rehearse, we do all the location stuff. The director (Philippides) comes to talk to me so close that I have to step back to focus to see what he's saying. Done the shoot he tells me it was very good. We leave to go to the dressing rooms. There he closes me in a very tight hug around my neck. Two days later he calls me and asks me to meet him in the evening at his place to rehearse. No evening rehearsal happens. I don't feel comfortable and say no. He calls me again the next day to tell me to rehearse at his own place. I said again I can't. I judged that it's not a rehearsal. I feel it's another call. He never calls me again, but no more scenarios come up," the witness said.
"I saw a flower that was waterlogged. A man crushed. It's the only time I saw a man so deeply broken mentally on the verge of not being able to handle himself," said the witness, who has maintained a friendly relationship with the complainant since 2014.
The reason to talk to her, the witness said, was her mention in February 2018 of a possible collaboration with the accused.
The telephone threats
Ms. Suma testified that her friend confided to her that she was receiving telephone harassment and threats from the accused.
"He was calling her and threatening her, talking to her in vulgar terms and was in a state of terror and under great threat, she told me. I was shocked. I could not imagine that something like that would happen to a person who went to discuss work that he would be attacked and in the nick of time he would be raped," the witness described.
It is worth noting that the defense of Petros Filippidis made a request to bring in a car identical to the one the accused actor was driving at the time he allegedly attempted to rape the third woman in order to examine the way his locks work, and the court reserved.
Source: in.gr
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