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In his apology, consisting of 27 pages and presenting the CNN Greece, the Dimitris Lignadis declares: “I am innocent and I ask to be released unconditionally.”
The former artistic director of the National Theater, accused of “Serial rape”, in his multi-page apology delivered to investigator 19, he speaks of “absolutely false and fabricated testimonies” since, as he states:
“Never in my life have I shown erotic-sexual interest in minors, I have never had sexual relations with any minor, with or without their consent, I have never used drugs and I have never possessed or distributed any drug to any third party.”
Read all the apologetic memorandum the accused:
The meeting of the Athens Council of Criminal Procedure took place on Thursday morning, in the presence of the Dimitris Lignadis, where the request was considered invalidity of the preliminary ruling presented yesterday Wednesday by his lawyer Alexis Kougias.
Mr. Kougias in his statements highlighted that they delivered to the council members evidence according to which the alleged violations in August 2010 and August 2015 were not committed by Mr. Lignadis since he was not in the places where the crimes were allegedly committed. Mr. Kougias spoke about the collapse of the prosecution.
According to his lawyer, previously, the Judicial Council had requested the personal appearance of Dimitris Lignadis before the Council, while from a defense point of view they have been declared 20 witnesses to support the director’s claims, but also to refer to his personality. Among the proposed witnesses are the actress and former Minister of Culture Eleni Kourkoula, as well as the owner of the TV station Action 24 Dimitris Panagiotakis.
The accusation is heavy
For crimes of particular criminal and moral depravity, the former artistic director of the National Theater apologizes to investigator 19 Dimitris Lignadis.
The time has come for the end of the “first act” of the much praised criminal case with the “protagonist” himself.
Exactly five days after the issuance of the arrest warrant against the theater man for crime of “serial rapeThe investigator and the prosecutor decide today, after finalizing his apology, his subsequent criminal treatment: that is, whether he will be taken into custody as suspected of committing new crimes or will be released under restrictive conditions.
The accused and his lawyer Alexis Kougias, tries to refute the harsh “accusation” of its plaintiffs by invoking an “alibi”, with the “absolute nullity of the trial for the deprivation of their basic procedural rights” but also by filing lawsuits against the two people who accuse Dimitris Lignadis of rape in 2010 and 2015. In both cases (the 25-year-old who is in Sweden and reported his rape in 2010 at the age of 14 and the Egyptian who reported his rape in Epidaurus in 2015) the accused will argue before the investigator that he was not even in the place where the alleged crimes were committed.
In fact, especially for the second rape case, his lawyer in his statements to Mega last night stated that Dimitris Lignadis“On August 1, 2015, he went to Ithaca and stayed there for the entire month of August with the owner of Action24 and former Minister of Culture.”
For this reason, Mr. Kougias presents today, as he had already announced, a request for the questioning of three witnesses who, according to Dimitris Lignadis, were with him in Ithaca at the time the alleged violation occurred. According to Alexis Kougia, these witnesses are Eleni Kourkoula, the owner of Action 24 Dionysis Panagiotakis and the journalist George Kouvaras.
For the first case, Mr. Kougias, in his statements outside Evelpidon, stated that “my client, from the travel documents, shows that he was in Egypt at the time of the accused.”
THE Dimitris Lignadis will try to deconstruct the witnesses by accusing them of “unreliableStating that “one of these witnesses did not testify against me at all, as he did not notice any of my misconduct towards any minor.” The female witness, “simply recounted her unfortunate and obsessive effort from her student years and specifically since 2000 to have an affair with me, without, however, not even realizing a sexual relationship with me or without consent, not even with a minor “. In other words, the actor-director will attribute his involvement in the case to envy, behind which, however, “there are also moral perpetrators.”
However, the 40-year-old witness, whose testimony was made crucial Regarding the development of the case, through its legal representative, Chryssa Papadopoulou, stated yesterday:
“The old-fashioned tactic of ‘killing characters’ and blaming the victims is a desperate attempt to divert attention from the merits of the case and demote it to the show of the keyhole. Through extremely homophobic, sexist and backward views, they address 1960s Greek society. But sadly for them, it is 2021 and their attempt to silence the voices of survivors of sexual violence and martyrs will fail. During this effort, however, the truth, honor and reputation of my client are brutally violated, when slanderous and / or defamatory facts about her, her life are disseminated in television programs, news bulletins, newspapers, on the Internet. personal and that of their relatives, a fact for which all their legal rights are reserved ”.
In addition, according to the former artistic director of the National Theater, “there are no photographs, forensic reports and messages either through a mobile phone or a social network, from which it is possible to confirm the complainants.” According to the allegations of the defendants, the whistleblowers are people you have seen for more than two decades!
In the “microscope” of the Prosecutor’s Office and other complaints from the theater
At the same time from his forehead Prosecution Investigation of other allegations concerning sexual abuse but also bullying in the theater, while the prosecutor of the Court of First Instance, Costas Spyropoulos, who investigates these cases, is already studying the file that the president of the Disciplinary Body of the Association of Greek Actors, Paschalis Tsarouchas, gave him.
According to information, the actor testified two-digit number of complaints to the prosecution, for crimes related to the violation of sexual freedom, but within them it seems that there are 2-3 complaints for the crime of rape.
These complaints are directed against at least two people and needs further investigation whether the statute of limitations for the alleged rape offense has expired or not.
Once the study of the complaints is completed, the prosecutor is expected to summon the people involved in the complaints.
Meanwhile, tomorrow Friday, he has been summoned by the Prosecutor’s Office to incorruptible explanations, What suspected of having committed the crime of rape protagonist of a major television series, who has been charged with an unspecified rape case, for Dimitris anthi. The suspect is reportedly the young man who was present at the rape (statute of limitations) allegedly suffered by the Dimitris Lignadis Nikos S., then 19, who, at least in the interview he gave to 2020mag, did not name him. The accused actor himself, who as his lawyer knew him was fired from the television series in which he participated, denies the accusation.
According to Dimitris Anthis in his lawsuit the crime was committed in 2006 and the actor who was then studying at the drama school of the National Theater, suggested that they go to his house where, using his muscular superiority, he raped him.
