To sentence imprisonment of three years sentenced in absentia a man who beat his ex-wife and adult daughter, inside an apartment in Thessaloniki.
The domestic violence case was revealed today at the Extraordinary Three-Member Plenary Court, following another violent incident that occurred two weeks ago, with the accused's ex-wife and 40-year-old daughter as victims. As the two women testified, last Saturday, the man came out of the bedroom of the house holding a wooden chair leg and started hitting them on the head with unbelievable violence.
"He hit my daughter on the head and I tried to help her. He's been obsessed with her since she was little and he's been hitting her. He used to beat me before and all five of my children. He would come in the morning and beat me, the children were crying," described the defendant's ex-wife, stressing that the man no longer lives with them, but has found shelter in her apartment which has suffered significant damage from a fire that broke out some time ago. I'm 40 years old and a week ago he hit me in the head, just like my mom. He took the stick and hit me on the head, if my mom hadn't caught him I don't know what would have happened. I jumped out the window to get away and asked for help," testified the victim, daughter of the accused.
"He's been beating us since we were little kids, my mom has a hematoma on her head. On Saturday he attacked us with a carved big stick from a chair. First he hit my mother, then he hit me with the stick and used his fingers to gouge my eyes out. He knew exactly where he was hitting. He understood what he was doing, he hadn't been drinking," she noted.
As the woman then said, the accused attacked her and her mother on November 19, when they went to their burnt-out house to get some things. "Our house was burnt down and he took the opportunity to sit inside the burnt house and we cannot tidy it up because he is inside. All of our brothers and sisters have been pulling these since they were little kids."
It should be noted that the man who was convicted without parole for serial domestic assault was also given a restraining order prohibiting him from approaching the two women and the home where they reside.
Source: Proto Thema
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