What was reported about her, she described as “a non-existent lie.” Ark of Peace Father Antonios, who was received on Friday evening in the central ERT newscast. “We are saddened and distressed by this wave of complaints. We have done research and what is being reported are unsubstantiated lies. I am outraged,” he said and asked to respect the work of the organization for 25 years.

“We don’t know anything. I’m telling you from the reports that we read, we answer them, and we fell from the clouds,” he added as to whether his thoughts are directed to people who could work in structures and be those “What I know very well is that all of a sudden about a project that we have been doing for 25 years, everyone is talking like it’s all true, without proof. Not noted. I also want respect. In in the sense that there are many children in our structures now. The Ark of Peace is their home. A model home. For children in therapy. We are not only talking about food, sleep, school. We are talking about healing trauma. What I am talking about is I have been talking for so many years, because children come to us who are difficult, who have traumatic experience,” he said.

When asked why the children who filed complaints turned to the police and not to him, he replied: “That is also our question. I have a very good relationship with all the children. We try, these children, when they come, who have no boundaries, from very difficult families, we often quarrel to help them. Go to school, do things your age. To stand tall in things that don’t belong.”

“I gave my life. I can tell you that. I don’t know if it’s wrong. I gave everything I have and everything I don’t. We never take a vacation. We’re done with these guys. I I don’t know what else to say,” he added.

On the side of Father Anthony, the old woman Stamatia Georgantis also spoke, who, for her part, hinted that the complaints were motivated by interests that wanted to harm the Ark of Peace. “We think the kids who went and filed complaints are probably motivated by something,” he said characteristically.