The finding of what was valuable and mainly jewelry was the motivation of the 21-year-old Roma who caused horror in the Plateos cemetery, desecrating graves and insulting the memory of the dead.
The fact that he committed such acts one day at noon still can not fit in the human mind, while after his apology on Saturday for a series of thefts in Messinia, he confessed his actions in the cemetery and the church of the village. He has now been taken to prison, after the decision of the prosecutor and investigator to be sentenced to pre-trial detention according to tharrosnews.gr.
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He desecrated tombs
The cemetery in Platy is located outside the village and everything happened at noon on December 16. The last resident of the area had visited the cemetery at about 2.00 pm. But then, after three quarters, a community councilor from the area arrived at the cemetery and what he saw will be remembered for a lifetime. Upon entering, he was found in front of the body of a woman who had been dug up by strangers, taken out of the grave and placed in a sitting position. He later found that they had caused extensive damage to six other monuments, while in one of them (which was used as an ossuary) the damage had reached the bones that were kept.
The perpetrators also entered the church and threw an image on the ground, forcibly moved the manual with the candles and mixed the Holy Table.
He was looking for rings
The Security Directorate of Kalamata did not stop all this time to investigate the case, until the day before yesterday all the information led to the 21-year-old, who had just fallen into their hands for committing 13 thefts.
As it turned out, he went to the cemetery with two Roma brothers, aged 16 and 12, as well as another 12-year-old.
The woman's tomb was the first one he found in front of him, which he broke and, as he said, took out the body in order to look under for rings or other jewelry.
The 12-year-olds, when they saw him remove the body, were terrified and left, while the 16-year-old remained.
Initially, the 21-year-old denied the desecration of the graves and the insult of the dead in the cemetery of Plateos, but finally confessed, saying that he broke the graves to find gold.