"I saved her from his hands" The story of the 15-year-old who killed his father because he abused his sister

The patricide from Evia is a tragic story that shocked the local community of a small village, but also Greece in general.

In particular, the story of the 15-year-old who killed his father because he raped his sister, became an episode in two TV series.

May God judge if I have sinned

The statement of the 15-year-old after the murder of his father, has remained nailed in the minds of those who lived at that time and remember the developments then. "A criminal left. My sister survived. May God judge if I have sinned. ”The family lived in Steni, Evia. The 15-year-old had a sister, one year younger than him. For the neighborhood, that family in Steni, was a typical Greek family. The father at work, the mother at home and the children at school. Besides, the daily life in the settlement located north of Chalkida and named Steni, is calm and without tensions. The community is still small and peaceful. The people who lived there knew each other and trusted each other. The calm in Steni Evia would end on January 12, 1977. The father of the family of four was rushed to the hospital of Chalkida, after suffering from terrible stomach pains. The doctors in Chalkida considered that his condition was extremely critical and sent him to Athens. After five days of hospitalization he left his last breath in the hospital. The cause of death on the certificate read "food poisoning". His body was transported to Steni, Evia, to be buried by his own people. In the village, however, the first "whispers" had already begun to be heard. There were many who believed that the death of the peaceful father was not an accident. They claimed that people from his family environment had poisoned him.

The rumors did not take long to be reported and although the case was closed, the village police officer decided to conduct an investigation to determine how many of the gossips that were heard were grounded. Several months after the incident, the police officer called the family to testify.

Each time in his deposition he became more and more nervous

The policeman seems to have focused on the 15-year-old. He often called him to the department for clarification and asked him to say again from the beginning what he supported in his initial statement. The 15-year-old soon realized that the suspicions of the police had fallen on him and each time in his statements he was more and more nervous. For two years the policeman had not managed to extract a confession. In December 1979, however, the 17-year-old now confessed the truth, bursting into tears. "Even though I was young, I understood my father's crime and decided to kill him."

He put rat poison in the heart capsule

The father of two children suffered from his heart, every day he was taking medicine for his heart which was in the form of a capsule. One day the 15-year-old opened the capsule and replaced the inside of the pills with rat poison. The father took the poisoned drugs that night and the poison did not take long to act. The same night he was taken to the hospital with terrible stomach pains and a week later he ended up.

"A criminal left. My sister survived. May God judge if I have sinned. "Now that I have said it all, I am relieved," the 15-year-old concluded, closing his confession. The revelations shocked the residents of Steni Evia. No one imagined what was hidden behind the closed doors of the quiet house. Because the perpetrator was a minor and two years had already passed since the crime, the newspapers did not cover the incident extensively. The director Panos Kokkinopoulos adapted the case for the small screen and changed the ages of the protagonists. the Strait of Evia. According to the titles at the end of the series, the court granted mitigation to the 10-year-old perpetrator and sentenced him to 15 years in prison.

He was released from prison and never returned to the village

He was released at the age of three. Both he and his mother and sister never returned to the village.