"She believed in a swindler who took her life. He did not take the gun to shoot her but killed her little by little with these preparations. If he asked for 30 thousand euros from me, I would give it to him and I would take it to the doctors. He would live now it was a second stage breast cancer, a routine affair ".
With this phrase, the 57-year-old husband who died in 2019 from universal metastases, gave the outline of what he lived from the moment the patient refused to have surgery and chemotherapy and followed the "treatments" of "Dr Kontos" for whom he believed to be an oncologist. with studies in Switzerland.
As the witness testified in July 2017, his wife was diagnosed with a breast tumor and had surgery which went very well "but we found out that she also had lymph nodes. Our doctor suggested that we start chemotherapy. Meanwhile my wife was politicized. She was interested in her image. She did not want to lose her hair and breasts. It was buttoned. She started going to church with a friend. He went to Agios Fanourios one Sunday and there the priest, who believed in herbs, had a problem with prostate cancer. The saint had met "Doctor Kontos" and believed he was a doctor. He told my wife that "there is a doctor who will not have to do chemotherapy". "I was surprised he was going to church."
The witness presented to the court the diaries of his wife where, as he testified, it appears that the accused "brainwashed her". According to the witness, "I was unimaginably disturbed one day when I heard her talking to Kontos in an open hearing. He brainwashed her, telling her "I will not let you die". I said to my wife, "What do you think God is?" She reacted. I told her you talk to doctors you can not cure cancer with garlic, beets and herbs.
I told her that the man is a scammer. We were constantly fighting. I got to the point of leaving the house, because we were arguing. I know what is going on outside in society. I also became a politician. I am an economist, I studied in America. I would tell her "Maria this man is hiding something" and she would answer "you know everything". Until then I had not seen him. I kept asking her not to waste her time. "We have scientists, the best surgeon. He was then in the first stage, it was a routine, he would remove the breast and he would live. I told her we have children, I want you to see them grow up. I always had an amount at home too. I told my second son in case I get something I have 30 thousand dollars, you are American citizens if I get something, you will all go to America. My wife was pushing my son and asking him for money. When he met Kontos, he suggested injections of artemisinin.
At one point the ..great doctor who destroyed my family gave her the New Testament. He gave her herbs. All I know is that when my wife died we never found the money. I told her to go to the hospital in Agios Savvas, she did not hear anything. We went to the doctor and he immediately told her that she had to undergo chemotherapy. Instead she made some juice, as the doctor told her, whole pots of herbs given to her by the great scientist. A house was filled with bottles and herbs. I told her "stop everything I want you to do chemotherapy, go to the doctor". Finally, he went in 2018 did a biopsy, he had three tumors were at an advanced stage, valuable time had been lost. "
Participant: How did the accused justify the deterioration of her health?
Witness: He told her that she was fine, to continue the herbs, not to be afraid that she made a new tumor. That his treatment was alternative with herbs, with proper nutrition and vitamins. He told her that the tumors would shrink and disappear and that "you will always be fine". He told her "do not believe the idiots of the doctors" and that this solution that he had, the doctors do not promote because they want to sell chemotherapy.
The witness testified that when they understood how she was missing the 30 thousand dollars she was at home "I talked to my wife and she told me that she needs them and that she had to save herself. It was not just $ 30,000, it was another € 25 hers, an amount for which she did not say what she did. She thought I was against her. On average, 000 to 30 euros have been left ".
In his torrent testimony, the witness stated that in November 2018, the woman underwent examinations as her breasts were swollen and bruised. "The doctor told her to have surgery and chemotherapy. She could not hear me telling her "do you understand that you are falling off the cliff? You will die, we have three children ". I told her it was her last chance. She wanted to think and finally told my son that if I went to get her to go to the hospital she would not let me. Until the day she died, on her birthday, April 1st, she was talking to the gentleman behind me. I could not stand the fact that he was not a doctor and he was playing doctor. That killed me but I could not prove it. "
Overwhelmed, the deceased's husband said that when the 57-year-old underwent new tests, "she now had metastases all over her body, up to her brain, and she was taking herbs and cannabis drops. We went to the doctor but we missed the train. She believed in a swindler who took her life. He did not take the gun to shoot her, but he killed her little by little with these preparations. If he asked for 30 thousand euros from me, I would give it to him and I would take it to the doctors.
He would live was a second stage, a matter of routine. This persuasion he had, I do not know what a gift this is. He has a mind but let him use it for the good of society. Let him say that he is not a doctor, that he is a botanist. If the woman knew he was not a doctor she would have shot him. He made fun of her. It gave false hopes to a dying man. I live them again, I go to her grave and tell her it had to do with a scammer. For a handful of money you can not play with the agony of a sick person. "I saw my wife from 65 kg to 45, she could not go to the bathroom or wash her hair."
Referring to the accused, the witness who was obviously trying to keep his composure told him that "He is a psychopath, what man can stand for a handful of money can bear to do such things? To let a man die slowly in a horrible way ".
Source: RES - EIA