These are Anna, Maria, Katerina, Sofia. Victims of abuse, sexual harassment, rape. They will think long and hard before reporting a criminal. Police authorities may treat them with aggressive indifference (as happened to Eleni Topaludi when she was first raped and reported it), or they may not find support from their family, their professional environment, society, as happened to many others.

If the abuser is a public and influential figure, he should think about it even more. Because then they will be vilified, humiliated by the spread of rumors and insinuations, vilified on social networks and in the media, which will seek their photos in intimate moments to stimulate the lower instincts of the public, craving for tricky scenarios.

If she had an affair with the offender, not to mention the fact that he was her husband, then she is unlikely to speak. Why did she want them, why did she take revenge on him for breaking up with her or cheating on her, why did he remember this now ?, why is he nice to her, because he does not need to put pressure on her.

The name of Eleni, who accused Georgoulis of rape and physical abuse, was released by the media, many without her consent and without her notifying her loved ones. The relevant “reports” gave whatever information they could find here and there, about her professional resume, her relationship with PASOK, her personal life. And always with a photo of her next to a photo of Georgoulis, to create the association that they were a couple, since from the very beginning she spread with “unspecified rumors”, according to the expression adopted in SYRIZA to describe what was. long heard against him their member of the European Parliament.

But does the presumption of innocence extend to the actor-deputy?

Certainly. But this also applies to the victim, the victim in the first place.

Criminologists are well aware that there is no one-time rapist, except perhaps by accident. They also know that the very low number of rapes recorded annually in our country compared to the European average is due to complaints, not incidents.

Psychoanalysts, for their part, know that rape is not about an inability to find a romantic partner, but about a sense of narcissistic omnipotence and a desire to dominate, humiliate, and subjugate another who does not recognize or nurture the perceived greatness of the other. To him.

Georgoulis’ comrades know that Alexis Tsipras chose him for the European Parliament because he was recognizable and charming, and not because of his political thinking, European education, prestige or progressiveness.

And a 12-year-old girl in Kolonos at some point learns that when she was raped again and again, a completely different woman lived in Brussels, but who could understand her.