Another domestic violence case reaches court Thessaloniki, this time with a 28-year-old victim who complained that for 11 years she was subjected to physical and psychological abuse by her 38-year-old husband and the father of their four minor children. The latest episode unfolded yesterday afternoon, when, according to the woman, her husband, after a quarrel, hit her in the stomach and threatened with a knife.

The 38-year-old man appeared before a three-member Autoforo Administrative Court in Thessaloniki and was sentenced to a total of 1 year and 9 months in prison for attempted bodily harm, insult and threats. The court ruled that the accused should serve the first two months of the sentence (the rest of the sentence should be suspended), and suspended the appeal – on the condition that he would appear once a month at the police station in his district. residence. Under these circumstances, the 38-year-old Albanian citizen filed an appeal and was released.

“He is pathologically jealous of me. Ever since we’ve been together for 17 years, I’ve been abused. I have repeatedly contacted the police, filed a lawsuit and injunctions. I was placed three times in a structure for women who were subjected to violence,” the 28-year-old, originally from Russia, said in her testimony. “But I forgave him on previous occasions and made amends. He said he would change,” the applicant continued.

In his statement, the defendant denied the allegations, stressing that he was a “decent person”. “I didn’t beat her. I work two jobs to survive. He constantly threatens me with children because he knows how much I love them. He calls the police every year,” he said, among other things.

Source: RES-IPE