[ad_1]
The Greek serial killer, who tortured believers to death in Keratea monastery to acquire a great fortune.
It was the afternoon of December 5, 1950, when more than 80 policemen, led by security officers, an investigator, and a deputy prosecutor, were operating at the Keratea Monastery.
There, dozens of wealthy old women were released, as well as 36 children in poverty. At the same time, the authorities arrest Abbess Mariam and her associates and the entanglement begins to unfold, in one of the biggest scandals to shake Greece.
For a long time there were rumors that the Monastery “Panagia Pefkovounogiatrissa” proselytized people to seize their properties. Allegations of torture reminiscent of the Middle Ages and deaths from tuberculosis were some of the horrible details that gradually began to come to light and behind all this was Abbess Mariam or Mariam Soulakiotou.
The horrible tortures
The interrogations lasted for many months, the case being voluminous. The trial began in November 1952 and Mariam Soulakiotou, abbess of the Monastery of Ancient Calendarists in Keratea, 8 nuns and the bishop of the ancient calendarists sat on the bench. The details of the torture were horrific, with allegations of torture “under the German system”.
The complaint of a man who wanted to be listed as a monk is typical. After a physical examination and taking a bag of gold rings and coins that he had sewn on his clothes, they fed him boiled poppies containing opium, so that he would be sedated and not protest. He had turned into a skeleton and finally managed to escape.
Another woman testified that at age 15 she followed her mother, who was a nun. A few months later, his mother died of deprivation and torture. She was put, she said, to carry stones during the day and at night to work on a trawl net to fish for the “Holy Mother.” They put iodine on his genitals and pins on his buttocks …
Another witness stated that while staying at the convent, which was also in charge of Mariam, he saw his 6-year-old nephew being beaten with their hair and plunged into the cistern to punish him. He saw another boy tied to a pillar in the cold because he secretly took a potato. Interrupting one of the witnesses, the prosecutor exploded: “Keratea is a disgrace for Greece. The hairs on my head stand on end. He thinks that 150 tuberculosis girls died there!” ….
In her apology, Mariam denied all the accusations, claiming that what she was attributed to were “fabrications of Satan”. He said that people came to the Monastery to save their souls. The sentence of the Criminal Court was handed down in February 1953 and the defendants were sentenced to various penalties, including the then pseudo-bishop of the Monastery, many monks and nuns, confidants of Mariam, but also the Abbess Mariam Soulakiotou, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison. . The charges were fraud, embezzlement, unlawful detention and intentional homicide.
Mariam listened to the verdict in tears and then said: “I was unjustly convicted. I have a clear conscience before God, that I did my duty with these weak creatures who accused me at trial.” The following year, in November 1954, he died in prison. at the age of 71.
News from Greece and the world, as it happens, on Newsbomb.gr.
Read also:
Spy Thriller: Cook’s Statement “Burned” Turkish Consulate Employee
