The time of the prosecution's motion in the trial for the martyrdom of Eleni Topaloudi

The time of the prosecution's submission on the martyrdom of the 21-year-old student, Eleni Topaloudi comes today before the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal, where the two almost the same age of the student who raped her and then threw her, brutally beaten but alive on a rocky beach in the area Lindos of Rhodes.

Today, the court's prosecutor is expected to present to the appellants and the jury her recommendation for the two young men, now 24 and 22 years old, who have been sentenced for the gruesome crime to life imprisonment and an additional 15-year sentence each.

The older one is a member of a wealthy family on the island, while the younger one is the son of a craftsman from Albania who has been living in Rhodes for years.

In the previous session, the two defendants apologized, claiming what they had said in the first instance court, essentially blaming each other and describing each of them as the one who simply did not react to the violence the other was using against the student.

According to the evidence of the case, when Topaloudi refused to have sexual intercourse with the two of them, at the country house of the accused, which triggered wild and extreme reactions of the two defendants who started beating her. The raped and beaten girl lost consciousness and when she recovered, according to the case file, she “declared to the defendants her intention to report them to the police, thus triggering their anger and at the same time their concern that they would be arrested and subjected to criminal sanctions for the above conduct. In view of this unpleasant prospect for them, the defendants then proceeded to weigh the facts and jointly decided to physically eliminate the victim...”.

With the prosecutor's proposal, the countdown begins for the court's verdict that will decide whether the two young men will leave the court with the same sentence or, as they themselves expect, whether they will get a better criminal treatment.

The parents of Eleni Topaloudi ask the court to keep the punishment imposed on the two perpetrators of the loss of their child as it is.