After months of prosecutorial investigations, which resulted from public complaints and intensive media attention about the illegal actions used by its leaders “The Ark of Peace”but after complaints about sexual harassmentThe Athenian Public Prosecutor’s Office opened a criminal investigation into the mishandling of dozens of foodstuffs by the relevant employees.

For these illegal actions with abusive behavior towards them minors, the main responsibility (he is persecuted as a moral criminal) lies with Father Antonio, the iconic figure who founded the structure, but has recently found himself at the epicenter of complaints against him on a variety of issues. In particular, after a preliminary investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office of Athens against him Antóniou was prosecuted for indecent behavior with minors following complaints filed against him today by a 19-year-old who was previously an inmate at the facility and another 15-year-old who continues to reside on the Peace Ark.

At the same time, a criminal case was initiated against the workers of Kivoto, a total of seven people, for a series of offensive actions against underage gourmets of the building, for minor offenses such as inflicting bodily harm of varying degrees of criminal danger, such as dangerous bodily harm, simple bodily injury, but also for the crime of endangering minors. For all these crimes, Father Antonios is accused of moral complicity, while the investigation will continue in the structures of Kivotos in its branches in the province, and copies of the relevant case materials will be sent to the prosecutor’s offices of Piraeus and Chios. .

Seven employees of the structure were prosecuted for offensive behavior, the moral culprit is the priest.

Father Antonios himself, who will then be confronted by the investigator, at the stage of preliminary prosecution denied the allegations, mainly regarding sexual harassment against two minors who had filed a complaint against him, claiming that they were untrue, while this was mentioned with a note on a long-standing project to support minor children, which he himself started and which he subsequently developed. However, as regards the accusation attributed to him that he was aware of the ill-treatment of minors by employees, i.e. about cruel and degrading punishments, etc., he also denied that he knew about them.

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However, in addition to the criminal investigation into the activities of Father Antonio in Kivoto, which has now been assigned an interim administration, an investigation into the financial department of the structure was also appointed, with the direction of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority. time to the prosecutor’s conclusion for evaluation. Based on this conclusion, the competent prosecutor is still continuing his investigation. However, on charges brought by the prosecutor’s office regarding the offensive behavior of the employees of the structure in relation to food, since they are prosecuted at the level of an administrative offense and are under the threat of a statute of limitations, legal proceedings will be initiated immediately and send them to court. The statute of limitations poses a risk, as the offenses were allegedly committed almost five years ago, in 2018, and only became known a few months ago.

However, the case of the Ark and the revelations of the real conditions that reigned in it made a splash in public opinion, and now justice is called upon to clarify the situation and confirm or refute the accusations.