Sadness and unanswered questions prevailed during the funeral of the unfortunate 14-year-old who was found hanged in his home last Saturday. Investigations to establish the exact cause of death continue, at a time when incidents of violence against minors are on the rise.
The classmates and parents of children who went at Maki's school talk about extreme incidents of bullying suffered by him and other victims, describing scenes of beatings of underage victims and denouncing the management, claiming that it did not do the right thing. There are dozens of reports of use of force and in other schools in Athens.
The complaints are growing
Students from the school of the 14-year-old who spoke out to the OPEN camera, they pointed out that very recently he had been subjected to another harsh attack by some of his classmates. «The situation against him had become desperate. He was telling me that he was sad, that he wasn't having a good time,» said one of his peers.
Recall that in November 2021 outside this school, juvenile gang had viciously attacked a child, and the video that had made the rounds on the internet had caused shock. «I have even seen knives in front of me. My son had been punched in the school and the management was indifferent,» she complained student's father.
«He was a very happy child, he was social. Nobody expected him to do this. If he had pain inside him, he hid it. As far as I know, he didn't share with many people if there was something wrong with him. He didn't tell me something about bullying. But I had heard that they were chasing him with water guns to his house, spitting on him, telling him they were going to stab him. They made fun of him for his weight, his clothes. The teachers and the headmaster, as far as I know, knew these things, but they didn't do anything,» a friend of the 14-year-old told Mega.
«There are a lot of children in school who are being bullied. Yesterday a girl came in in the classroom wearing a short-sleeved shirt. She's a little darker and was told she had hair on her arms and not to wear a short sleeve. And the girl was crying and saying she'd never wear a short sleeve again. There are a lot of groups at school that do things like that. The teachers told us to go to the principal. The girl didn't go and nothing else happened,» described another student at the school.
«Some of these guys we know. I don't know why they do all this. I don't know what their reason is. There hasn't been an incident in front of me, but I hear too much,» his girlfriend added.
«If I kill myself, what will you do?»
To child confided in Friends that, particularly in the last month, the situation with the school bullying against him had become desperate. According to what he told STAR friend of the 14-year-old, Makis had been thinking about ending his life for three months. «Three months ago he said to me “if I kill myself, what will you do?” And I told him don't talk nonsense,» he said.
In any case, as they stressed police sources at ethnos.gr, there is no evidence linking the 14-year-old's suicide to an Internet provocation. However, authorities have had the cell phone and other electronic devices in their hands for several hours, the which are expected to bring to light his communications and whether he was subjected to cyberbullying in addition to school bullying.
«Everything will be looked at. The contacts he had, the conversations with various people, the searches and any other evidence, such as video, that might help the investigations. There will be a regular scan on everything,» said police officials to ethnos.gr and Evlambia Revis.
In the next few hours, police officers will receive statements from the parents of the child, his classmates and the principal of the school the child attended. The statements will be combined with the electronic findings to shed light on the causes that led to the 14-year-old's hanging.
Students from Maki's school were arrested for the wild clash in the Veikos Park
Meanwhile, new evidence is coming to light about the melee between minors that occurred in the Veikou Grove, in Galatsi Tuesday morning. According to the information, the students Retrieved from from 7th High School of Pagrati and from the 54th school of Athens, where the 54th school of Athens 14-year-old Makis who committed suicide in Kato Patisia. After extensive investigations, police officers located and arrested five students from the 7th High School of Pagrati, who had on them knives and blades.
In particular, according to the ELAS, Morning hours Yesterday (17-5-2022) within the Forest of Veiku in Galatsi, during Duration who were in the room students two High School, in the context of a school trip, five (5) minors approached two (2) also minors, initially attacked them verbally and then with the use of physical violence them wounded light.
In addition, one of the accused threatened one of the victims with a sharp object, while another tried unsuccessfully to take his mobile phone. It is noted that during the incident, the teachers' escorts of the above Schools and prevented the escalation of the episode. The defendants οδηγήed to the Galatsi Security Department, which intervened pre-trial.
