On his way to prison is Dimitris Lignadis, after his apology before the 19th interrogator of Athens, for the offence of serial rape of two minors.
After a long process that started at 15.30, when the artist began to apologize, The investigator and the prosecutor expressed the opinion that the accused should be remanded in custody.
The 19th regular investigator had advocated the arrest of the artist, based on the evidence of the prosecution's investigation as to the specific characteristics of the act, which, in combination with the duration of his action, it was considered that make him suspected of committing new offences.
The apology of Dimitris Lignadis lasted about four hours. He had delivered an apologetic memorandum to the magistrate in which, denying any action, he described as fictions what was attributed to him by the two victims. At the conclusion of the apology, witnesses proposed by the accused gave evidence to the investigating magistrate in support of the allegations he had made to refute the two complainants.
Before the apology began, he had been present in person at the Judicial Council at 12.00, where the objection to the invalidity of the pre-trial proceedings, which he had submitted through his attorney, was examined. Alexis Kougias. The objection was rejected by the judges.
The accused was considered to be remanded in custody with the agreement of the investigator and the prosecutor, for reasons of prevention of committing new offences on his part.
Defence: file «without evidence»
Reacting, the lawyer Alexis Kougias said: «It was a very difficult procedure. We will appeal against the order of the investigator for temporary detention. It is a case file without evidence, a case file that if it were not for (Lignadis) he would have been summarily released.».
