A child listens to music wearing his headphones in the safety of his home. A few minutes later, everything has been overturned and nothing in his life will be the same. He finds his mother bleeding., asks for help and does all he can, at sixteen years old, to give her the opportunity to hold on to life, but in vain. Around the same time, his father has pulled the trigger on his service gun and is found dead in his car. The children of the police couple in Drama are the other victims of the father's decision to kill his wife with whom was separated And commit suicide.
The 45-year-old Antigone, police officer and mother of two, is another link in the long chain of women murdered by their husband, because he refused to accept that the relationship between them had ended and that the woman was not "his", "his possession", "his ownership". The woman was murdered with seven stab wounds while sleeping, while one of the blows found her in the heart.
According to what has so far been known, in recent months The police couple From Drama he had taken separate roads. The 52-year-old husband had returned to his parents' home, while the mother lived with her minor son—the daughter of the family is a student. All testimonies converge that Antigone had identified the signs of abusive and manipulating behavior: The threats that her husband would commit suicide, the jealous scenes, the threats. A Witness, in fact, described that relatively recently the woman had awakened and found the 52 - year - old over her head with the gun in her hands. She left like-- just like she went to her sister.
Just a few days ago, Antigone had shown that she had the fear that something could happen to her, sharing a post saying that Greek society reacts feels threatened by gay Pride, but "When a man butchers the woman of a breath from his children, the Greek family lives only a single tragic moment. .."This phrase is like describing the end of her own life, with her child being "a breath" away.
The murder of Antigone has no legal continuity since the killer is also a suicide. However, as in many women's murder cases, the other victims are the children left behind. Justice will decide on custody of the underage son of the police couple, while the daughter has grown up.
Antigone had not made an official complaint against 52-year-old Thomas about domestic violence, as Police spokesperson Constantia Demoglidos said. However, it remains a serious question in the case of what was found and what help was received from the psychologist to whom the perpetrator had addressed himself in order to manage the separation. At the house where the family lived and was murdered with seven stab wounds - One found her in the heart - antidepressant pills and preparations were found to deal with panic attacks.
As estimated, based on the information that came to light after the murder and suicide, the 45-year-old police officer did not proceed with an official complaint, knowing that this would have professional consequences for her husband, judging that his removal from the family home would be enough to be safe.