“He was a man we trusted and he raped my sister” – The testimony of an actress in the trial of her colleague and the presence of Lanthimos in Evelpidon

Shocking Testimony successful Athens Court successful Actor’s Rape Trial

With shocking caller details, the Athens Court of Justice contiguous continued the proceedings of a 43-year-old actor, accused of 2 attempted rapes against a young pistillate — the sister of a well-known histrion with an planetary vocation — arsenic good arsenic the rape of different woman.

Today, the sister of the archetypal complainant, whom the suspect allegedly attempted to rape doubly successful December 2012, took the basal to testify arsenic a witness.

The witnesser — herself an internationally recognized actress — had antecedently been successful a narration with the suspect and had besides accused him of raping her. However, her ain ailment was yet filed distant and ne'er reached trial.

In her affectional testimony, the 33-year-old histrion described not lone however she felt erstwhile her younger sister revealed that the suspect had assaulted her, but besides what she herself experienced during their relationship, erstwhile helium allegedly raped her.

Among those contiguous successful the courtroom was film manager Giorgos Lanthimos, who has worked with the witnesser successful the past. Mr. Lanthimos’s woman is besides expected to attest successful the case.

“My sister and I are precise close. I ever retrieve my parents worrying astir her — she was depressed,” the 33-year-old witnesser began, recounting the affectional struggles her sister faced, adjacent attempting termination astatine 1 point.

“Looking back, I understood wherefore my sister behaved that way. The suspect was idiosyncratic we trusted — helium was successful our home. He was raping my sister, and that’s wherefore she was falling apart,” she told the court, describing the daze she felt erstwhile her sister yet confided successful her.

“I was successful shock… I panicked. There were galore incidents,” she continued, explaining that she instantly called the defendant. But, according to her testimony, helium neither denied the allegations nor seemed to grasp the gravity of what helium had done. “He said, ‘You cognize however I am. I liked her body. Why are you reacting similar this?’ He didn’t contradict thing — helium was conscionable crying.”

The histrion broke down arsenic she described however the ordeal had haunted her family:

“These are things we’ve tried for years to hide due to the fact that they destroyed us. This antheral was portion of our household — my parents helped him with everything…”

She went connected to explicate that it was lone aft the emergence of the #MeToo movement that she and others recovered the spot to talk up.

“When the revelations started, I began talking to friends. Many told me, ‘I cognize idiosyncratic who went done the aforesaid thing.’ I indispensable person received accusation astir 10 to 15 girls,” she said.

Judge: “Did you promote immoderate women to study him?”
Witness: “No, due to the fact that earlier 2021, we hadn’t adjacent done it for ourselves…”

Visibly emotional, the histrion besides spoke astir her ain alleged maltreatment by the suspect portion they were a couple. She said she had fallen successful emotion with him and saw him arsenic a “mentor and teacher.”

“I believed what happened to maine was unsocial — that it lone happened to me. He would unit america to person enactment portion reciting a monologue,” she testified, adding that she ne'er suspected helium had besides assaulted her underage sister.

“You’re asking maine to retrieve events earlier and aft things I didn’t know… I retrieve my ain rape — the pain, the crying…” she said done tears.

Judge: “Was determination an unspoken regularisation that young women successful this situation had to tolerate specified behavior?”
Witness: “There were galore abusive teachers… I retrieve reasoning the archetypal clip that possibly it was my responsibility — that somehow, I had caused it.”