“No hatred is healed with hatred” — The priest’s anguished message at the funeral of Evangelia from Vorízia and relatives’ attempts at reconciliation

There is anxiousness astir what volition hap adjacent successful Vorizia after the funerals of Fanouris Kargakis and Evangelia Fragkiadaki, who were killed successful an speech of gunfire connected the greeting of past Saturday.

A striking illustration of the effort to calm spirits was the connection from the clergyman who performed the ceremonial for the 56-year-old astatine the religion successful Alikianos, Chania, connected Tuesday afternoon.

As Father Emmanouil said successful his message, “At this hr we basal earlier a coffin that should not exist. A young woman, a mother, departs successful a convulsive and unjust way. The reason? A quality passionateness that volition not beryllium extinguished and stopped successful our place.”

“As tragic as it is for a idiosyncratic to limb their manus against their brother, it is arsenic foolish to question vindication with blood, portion the humor waters the world and brings tears,” the clergyman continued.

“No hatred is healed with much hatred. We bash not support weapons for our brothers; the Church lone blesses arms erstwhile the integrity of the homeland is threatened. Such events coiled not lone families, they shame our Crete. Crete is not an land of revenge but of honor, pride, bravery and hospitality,” Father Emmanouil went on.

He added, “Bravery is not taking up a gun; it is keeping your psyche upright successful pain. To person the spot to forgive, to measurement back, to halt the evil earlier it spreads. The Church asks everyone to halt the foolish rhythm of violence; fto symptom go an juncture for reconciliation, forgiveness and peace. As agelong arsenic we fto humor flow, the onshore darkens.”

Appeals from women of the Fragkiadaki family

This tone besides appears to usher the Fragkiadaki family’s side, some done the woman of the 29-year-old member of the 56-year-old Evangelia and done her mother.

The woman of the 29-year-old, who surrendered on with his 2 different brothers connected Tuesday day — parent of a 5-year-old and a 10-day-old babe — made an entreaty for calm and crushed to prevail. She stressed that women are the ones who tin power situations for the bully of their children, according to cretalive.gr.

She besides told reporters that she did not spot immoderate weapons from the Fragkiadaki side, but she intelligibly saw the idiosyncratic who was shooting with a Kalashnikov from above, from the location of her 27-year-old brother-in-law, whose woman is reportedly pregnant.

About 39-year-old Fanouris, she said they saw him moving rapidly successful his conveyance with his hands out. “He was holding some a pistol and a Kalashnikov. A slug would walk and termination whoever it hit. He was ‘playing’ america normally. My hubby took maine down from the stairs due to the fact that I person a 10-day-old baby. I’m breastfeeding. My different kid was successful the gait and bullets were falling there… I don’t adjacent privation to deliberation astir it… They enactment the weaponry successful my brother-in-law’s house; they did not respect that my sister-in-law is pregnant,” she said.

She repeated that she precise intelligibly saw the antheral who was shooting the Kalashnikov from supra and estimated that helium killed their aunt. “We were waiting for them to surrender truthful we could testify,” she said.

The parent of the arrested described the nighttime earlier the bloodshed: “On Friday nighttime we were astatine home, 10:30 p.m., my daughter-in-law, my grandson and my husband. We heard a noise, I opened the doorway and saw my son’s house. I told my husband: they blew up my son’s house! And present they accidental we enactment the bomb… We called the police, but it took them 2 hours to come. My children were astatine a wedding, my older lad was the champion man. My lad has been trying for years to hole up that house. How tin I judge helium would bash that himself?”

Message of sasmós (reconciliation) from Evangelia Fragkiadaki’s mother

Earlier, a connection of “sasmós” (a accepted telephone for reconciliation) was issued by Evangelia Fragkiadaki’s parent aft her daughter’s funeral. The aged woman, dressed successful black, is heartbreaking arsenic she says she hates nary 1 and wants the evil to halt here.

“I bash not provoke anyone but I privation the evil to halt present truthful we don’t person more. I hatred nary one, I person thing against anyone. Let the evil halt here. I person thing other to say. They killed my girl unjustly,” Mrs. Fragkiadaki said.

“Let them permission the village”

Speaking connected Action 24 yesterday — a time aft Fanouris Kargakis’s ceremonial — his parent described her son’s decease arsenic an “execution successful acold blood” and said astir the village’s future: “I request that they (i.e., the Fragkiadaki family) permission the village.”

“They were ever looking for trouble, ever provoking. There was an incidental (the detonation astatine a building), I don’t cognize who did it to their house, we aren’t to blame,” Fanouris Kargakis’s parent initially said, claiming that a twelvemonth earlier idiosyncratic had tried to termination her grandson astatine the aforesaid spot.

“They came in, middlemen, they acceptable things up and we fixed it, and they said connected 1 broadside it was america and connected the different it was them, but they provoked. I don’t cognize who did that to them successful their house; possibly they did it to get money. I cognize we are not to blasted for anything,” she added.

According to her, “gunfire started from above, my girl called the police. The constabulary were there, they were shouting ‘whore’, they were shouting they would bent her.”

“Then they went to the church, they brought the Kalashnikovs, my lad passed by there, they had an ambush for him and they executed him successful acold blood. If you spot the car you’ll understand. Fifteen radical were ‘playing’ (the Cretan connection they usage for those who shoot),” continued Fanouris Kargakis’s mother.

She besides said, “they injured each other, they killed their ain woman, they were shooting around.”

“I cognize I mislaid my brave boy, my child, my man,” the 39-year-old’s parent said, adding: “they were shooting each around, they had wrapped my house, my lad was unsocial above, helium was going to enactment and they executed him, it was an execution successful acold blood.”

When asked what volition hap the adjacent time successful the village, she replied, “they volition permission the village; if they privation to enactment here, fto them. I request they leave. I don’t cognize if it volition halt here, I don’t know. I request they leave. And successful 1955 erstwhile the different incidental happened, my gramps did it,” she added.