“I am Alka’s mother. Look at me, raise your head! With these words, Melina Kakulidou, mother 19 year old student Alkis Campanuaddressed the 12 defendants in her son’s murder from the witness stand, turning to look them in the eye.

“If they had even a drop of truth, they would have looked me in the eyes, because in my eyes they would also have seen Alkis,” Ms. Kakulidou emphasized in her testimony at the trial, which took place in the Mixed Jury Court in Thessaloniki.

Testifying immediately after her husband, she spoke of the “cruelty that my child endured” and addressed the defendants with a huge “why”. “What did my leventi do to you? It was 1.90 … “, – he said characteristically and, commenting on the conclusion of the forensic experts, describing in detail the blows received by the 19-year-old, he emphasized: “Thirty blows crushed his skull. And no one did? It’s above me in itself.”

Referring to the accused, whom she named one at a time, she said that no one asked for a single apology, and the character of her son, she said that “from a very early age he accepted everyone, he had a formed personality, he knew his limits” .

He was, as he pointed out, “a child full of gifts, smiles, sincerity, lack of selfishness. At home, there was no chance that there would be a quarrel between me and my husband, and he (Alkis) would not say: “Find a way to solve your problems at your age.”

According to APE