[ad_1]
The personal drama of a 34-year-old refugee, a mother of three from Iraq who was the victim of a trafficker, lasted for about a year.
As the woman testified yesterday at noon in the Mixed Court of Thessaloniki, the 35-year-old trafficker constantly raped her, causing her to become pregnant with her third child and beat her while also abusing her little one.
According to voria.gr, it all started in 2018 when the woman and her husband decided to leave Iraq and immigrate to Europe. The first stop on their trip was Turkey and specifically Istanbul, where the couple met in a cafe the accused trafficker, originally from Iran, who, they said, received a reward of about 5,000 euros for helping first the man and then the wife. with the two children crossing to Greece via Evros.
“He told me that he would treat my wife as if she were his sister and that he would not worry,” the 43-year-old told the court yesterday. But the reality was very different, as described by the victim. As she said, after her husband left for Greece, she was left alone in the smuggler’s house with her children and two other people who lived in the apartment. The woman claimed that the defendant’s behavior began to change, until she was continuously beaten and raped even in the presence of her young children. “She was raping me. She raped me even in front of the children. I was very embarrassed. […] “He was hitting me hard on the head and abdomen,” she said, adding that the 35-year-old was giving her pills that made her feel tired and want to sleep.
According to his description, the defendant was carrying a knife and threatened the woman that if she spoke, he would hurt her as he had done to her ex-husband, for which he told her that he had cut off her nose and ears. The defendant’s threats were not limited to the woman, as he threatened to throw his children out of the window. The victim described a scene in which the 35-year-old woman grabbed her little boy by the leg and threatened to throw him out the window. The children’s mother even stated that the man locked her three-year-old son – then – in the bathroom every night and when he came out his face was red and he was vomiting.
After about six months, the accused along with the woman and the two children crossed by boat from Evros to Greece and from there to the structure of the International Organization for Migration at the Baths of Apollonia. According to the file, when they first arrived at the Border Guard Department in Soufli, the defendants forced the victim to falsely declare another name to prove that his wife and two children were his children. The 34-year-old refugee told the court that she tried to escape by telling the asylum office that the defendant was abusing and blackmailing her, but officials told her she had to contact the police. As she describes, the defendant told her that if she filed a lawsuit in Greece, no one would understand her as she threatened her, telling her that she had nude photos of her that would circulate on the internet if she went to the police and charged him. The woman, who was now pregnant with the accused’s son, finally managed to discuss her martyrdom with an IOM official when she went to visit her doctor, the only place where she said the trafficker left her alone. It was May 2019. A few days later, in June, the authorities entered the apartment of the structure where the defendant lived with his wife and children and arrested the 35-year-old.
The defendant denied the allegations in court, saying he and the woman developed an affair with her consent while describing her as “their love and affection.”
The woman’s testimony was also supported by the coroner’s report. The woman, who during her deposition strongly upheld the paper proving that she had been granted asylum in Greece, now lives safely in the country with her three children. The asylum application of the man and father of two children is pending, who in the meantime has been reunited with her family and lives with them.
The court unanimously declared the accused guilty of human trafficking, continuous rape, continuous unlawful violence and moral instigation, imposing a sentence of 40 years, of which he will serve 20, and a fine of 120,000 euros.
Source:
Source: voria.gr
