Christos Kiousis gave his own lengthy answer through his text, in which he solves all the questions in the world that accuses him. He talks in detail about the action of Stathis Panagiotopoulos but also the communication they had with his ex-partner.
Specifically, he states that he, Antonis Kanakis and Giannis Servetas undertake the psychological and legal assistance of the 30-year-old girl today and asks that we all let the victim calm down.
«This moment can come too. When you learn that your partner for 13 years has committed criminal, heinous, scheming acts against a person who did not harm him in anything or anywhere. From the moment you learn it, there are no tactics, crisis management, damage control or as they say, there is only one way. You pick up the phone from the first moment and ask the question: "What are I reading?" "What have you done?"
And, yes, his own public statement proves he did. It is not called revenge porn, no ex-lover took revenge on the woman with whom he had an affair, he posted, while he was still in a relationship, videos and photos on a site with pornographic content without her consent. I do not know with which English or Greek terminology to replace revenge porn, let it occupy psychiatric and legal circles.
From the first day, from the first moment, the perpetrator ceased to be for us even what was completely entrenched until then, a professional partner. There was no other way, no different thought for a moment. This man betrayed a collaboration with the father of a daughter and a son, with the father of a son and the father of two girls and a boy. From the moment we heard the news, we are just that. That is why it is not possible to be and continue for the time being like anything else. But we are not the victims. The victim is one, he was tortured and tortured unjustly and all this must end. And it will take. Not the end as news, not the end as torture. Mental and spiritual. This extermination ends here.
You know many times people who are blatantly wronged end up crashing into a wall. Made of materials such as physical fatigue, mental exhaustion, financial weakness, immoral support, a wall is erected in front of them that reads "I can not stand it anymore", "I will never find my right." This is not the case, because we will not allow it to be.
Last night, on behalf of our team, I managed to communicate with the girl after our on air request and her own initiative and to learn the whole truth from her mouth. We also contacted her lawyer, who described to me the whole Golgotha trial that the victim has been going through since 2019, almost three years ago. So we learned first hand about the victim's repeated requests for the illegally posted pornographic material to be downloaded, the promises that were not kept, the systematic deception, the non-appearance in court, the avoidance of the highway procedure, we were all informed. And I heard on the phone a man disappointed and dejected.
The common line that we drew in the studio, talking to Antonis and Giannis, had nothing to do with our own damage control, with the management of our own crisis but with the management of its own crisis that has taken so long, which ceases to be "Crisis", which is why I describe it as torture.
We undertake any legal, psychological or other assistance to the victim. Whatever is needed for this case to be tried fairly, whatever legal and scientific tools her lawyer needs, we take care of everything. She will never be alone again with the one who hurt her so unjustly.
I will not go into details of the case (unbelievable that I have to use this phrase), because her lawyer gave me this very specific instruction. We will not make any mistake in the face of the indignation and anger we feel. We have the necessary time, resources and above all the will to support this girl in practice, as if she were our sister, as if she were our daughter.
The answer to the title question "How can you not know?" it is so simple. The man who did the deeds he now admits has never shared them with anyone. I knew he imagined that he could not share them with Antonis, Giannis, me or anyone else behind the camera of our partner, maintaining his anonymity and impunity. And he did it all secretly. And unfortunately he did not do just that, as we learn from additional complaints. And unfortunately we do not know what else he could have done that will be reported from now on. But so be it! To denounce everything and bring everything to light. And no matter if our stomach is going to break from grief and anger, no matter if we are disgusted in front of the pit of his actions, we do not want this lid to be closed, covering and hooding other victims.
The social media users and their posts, institutional and non-institutional institutional factors who smelled blood and went out to taste it, governmental and non-governmental, all those who set off assumptions, characters and lives, will all get their answers in time. This is not urgent for us.
I close here with a human request from all of us, Antonis, Giannis, me, all the children of the production to the colleagues of the media. Let the victim calm down, get organized, exist! For anything you need, contact her lawyer. Do not do any more damage, please. We as professionals can manage everything. She does not. "Let us be human first, then let us be everything else", he wrote on the website gazzetta.gr.