The neighborhood in which Dimitris Lignadis lived is shocking. The well-known director and actor is the face of the day in Greece on the occasion of the shocking allegations that saw the light of day and related to the serial rape of minors.
The testimonies of the neighbors of the well-known director and former artistic director of the National Theater are shocking. The residents of the area, but also of the apartment building where Dimitris Lignadis lived, spoke to SKAI and referred to voices heard from the director's apartment and to minors who went to it daily.
"Sometimes we heard voices and thought they were rehearsing. It is very sad ", said a neighbor while another who lives in the same apartment building with the director noted that Dimitris Lignadis had" cut the way "of her daughter inside the apartment building, when she was only 15 years old. "They entered the apartment building together. He stays in the eighth we in the first. "My daughter took the elevator, walked up and came out in front of her."
The same woman claims that a few years later she suggested that they drink coffee to help her with her homework. "She tried to approach my daughter. She had a theme in her lessons. I do not know how he found out. And he had invited her for coffee. "I do not know if he meant at home," he said.
"He threatened me with a gun" - The testimony that led to Lignadis' arrest
"If you dare to speak, I will take the gun and blow your mind." This was testified, among other things, for Dimitris Lignadis by a "mysterious" woman on Friday, February 19, for the well-known director. According to Alpha Hellas, the woman, who was very close for years with the director, testified for at least 4 hours and the next day Dimitris Lignadis was arrested.
According to the report, the specific woman was only 19 years old and was studying at a university in a large provincial city, when she met Dimitris Lignadis. She fell in love with him and went in and out of his house for 19 years. But when he realized what was happening to underage boys and girls, he reacted.
According to her testimony, in 2016 the woman said to the well-known director: "I will go to the Police and I will give it to you" and he replied: "If you do, I will blow your mind in the air with a gun". The woman claimed that out of fear for her life she kept her mouth shut and a year later stopped meeting the director.
"When I visited him at his house, I sometimes saw young boys and girls leaving. And when I left, some others came ", the woman testified according to the report of a Greek channel (Alpha). Eventually the woman decided to speak, albeit late, when the wave of complaints about the director began. Her testimony was one of the reasons the former artistic director of the National Theater was arrested.
Source: ethnos.gr/skai.gr