“My Virginia, hug your dad tightly …”: The note about the Greek who was murdered in Trier with his son is moving | WORLD

The farewell message left by the Greek dentist’s relatives, at the point where he got cold in Trier, Germany, holding his two-month-old daughter, when a car whose driver was under the influence of alcohol fell on them, breaks hearts.

“Virginia, hold my dad tightly in your arms to see you up there. Take care of your hand and your brother like an angel you have become”, mentions the touching note from his shocked relatives George Kombiliris and his daughter, Virginia.

“He was a devoted father …”

A resident of Trier, the 18-year-old Jessica Meyer, who knew the 45-year-old dentist well, after visiting him as a patient in his office, was shocked to learn the tragic news of his death. “He was well loved. He made sure the children in his office were not afraid, explaining what he would do and how he would do it. When he met his patients in town, he greeted them and asked how they were. The doctor was a devoted father. He was very proud when he became a father. We saw him pushing the stroller with his baby through the streets. “, He says. “His daughter, Virginia, was born recently and the doctor became a father for the second time. They knew his son, aged one and a half, had seen him once.”

Jessica was informed of the Greek doctor’s death by her parents. “The tragedy happened while taking a lunch break from work. It is very different when you meet the victims in such cases. I immediately cried when I found out, I felt crushed“, He says.

Who is the author of the murder in Trier?

The 51-year-old German driver of the jeep, who was under the influence of alcohol when he deliberately fell into the crowd, killed five people and injured 18 others, six of them seriously, was a resident of Trier. Byrd W., who plunged so many families into unspeakable pain, studied electrical engineering and worked as a shift supervisor until he resigned. “He was very friendly and open-minded,” says a former colleague. “But his partner left him and disappeared with his best friend.”

Byrd B.’s mother passed away in May 2010 and he was forced to sell his father’s house and invest the money, among other things, in the Land Rover with which he reaped lives last Tuesday on Trier’s main pedestrian street. When he lost his job, he gave his car to someone he knew, because he would not be entitled to unemployment benefit if he had assets. In recent weeks he lived in the jeep and was very often drunk …