The testimony of the worker of the municipality of Volos after the attack by a man with a chainsaw is shocking.
"I realized what a man faces before he is killed. He sees across from him his killer ruthless, his eyes blurred. Not listening. Understanding nothing, nothing. I lived with the help of the Virgin Mary."
This is how the 58-year-old gardener of the Green Department of the Municipality of Volos described to the local newspaper "Tachydromos" what she experienced the day before yesterday morning, in the park "Melagoma" in the area of Vamvakourgia.
The 58-year-old was mowing grass when she was unprovoked attacked by 39-year-old who was going to slaughter her with a chainsaw.
Frame by frame the attack with the chainsaw
The 58-year-old is a permanent employee and specifically a gardener in the Greenery Department of the Municipality of Volos, since 2008. Together with three other colleagues, she was in N. Ionia, mowing grass and trimming trees and shrubs in Melagoma Park.
The gardener had left the lawnmower behind and had taken the chainsaw to cut a branch that was obstructing the work. "I was bent over when I heard my colleagues shouting. Behind you, be careful, they were shouting at me. 'Holy Mother of God, what are they saying? I think. And I stand up. As I turn towards him I see this man coming towards me holding the chainsaw," he described to the Postman.
"As I turned he was holding the chainsaw in his hands. What are you doing? I dared to ask. Then he dropped the mower and grabbed my hands. He started pointing the chainsaw at me. How God enlightened me at that time, I turned off the switch," the 58-year-old continued.
The 39-year-old perpetrator was out of touch with reality. He was swearing and speaking inaudibly. The employee realized that he was probably disturbed by the grass cutting operations. "Don't you want us to cut the grass? We won't cut them," she was saying, trying to buy time to get away and get away from him.
The extreme incident played out before the astonished eyes of the 58-year-old's colleagues and local residents. One woman pulled the 58-year-old and told her to enter their home, where she locked herself in. The 39-year-old chased her and threw the chainsaw towards her. He then prowled around the house shouting and swearing, while throwing furiously and breaking machinery.
Through the security of the house, the 58-year-old woman immediately informed her supervisor, the Director of Greenery, and he in turn informed the Deputy Mayor of Greenery, George Prattos.
The police were alerted and brought the 39-year-old to the station, where a complaint was then filed against him and will be tried tomorrow, Monday.
The perpetrator was known to the police - He had set fire to the manger set up by the Municipality of Volos
The woman until yesterday could not recover from the shock. As she was later informed, the 39-year-old man who attacked her is known to the police and has created many incidents in the past. Even snatching their food, walking around drunk and lying down in the middle of the street. Two years ago he was the one who had set fire to the manger set up by the Municipality of Volos in Agios Nikolaos square for the Christmas period and by luck the worst had been avoided.
The 39-year-old is often arrested, tried and released. He is given medication by the psychiatric clinic but it appears that he is not taking it. It has also been judged that ... does not require incarceration.
DAS OTA: Criminal assault against a municipal employee
DAS OTA speaks in a statement on the occasion of the unbelievable incident of a criminal assault against a municipal employee.
In its statement it says:
"The DAS-OTA Magnesia denounces the brutal and criminal attack that was received on Friday, December 2, at 11 in the morning, a colleague, working in the Green of the Municipality of Volos by a citizen. The colleague, mother of two children, during her work in Vamvakourgia Square was attacked by a citizen, who broke the trimmer and attempted with the chainsaw to literally slaughter the worker. Fortunately, she managed to turn off the machine and fled to a nearby house to save her life.
The perpetrator of the unacceptable criminal attack has concerned the residents of the area with his dangerous behavior on other occasions, causing problems not only in the park where many young children gather, but in the area in general, where many elderly people live, reaching into the yards of houses. It is imperative and necessary for the Municipal Authority to view this incident with the seriousness it deserves, to request and take all those measures in order not to mourn victims.
Fortunately, our colleague managed to survive yesterday. But she experienced the horror of it. Another proof that municipal workers, especially those in front-line services (Green, Cleaning, etc.), experience enormous risks to their safety, health and even their physical integrity on a daily basis. With very few effective protection measures, they collect all kinds of hazardous materials (carcasses, syringes, litter, etc.) from all public places on a daily basis, risking their lives to keep the city clean. These are the real heroes of everyday life."
Source: iefimerida.gr / "Tachydromos"
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