Lignadi trial: The artist’s apology on Monday

The time of Dimitris Lignadis’ apology arrives on Monday morning after the completion of today the examination of witnesses before the Mixed Jury Court that for four months judges the artist for serious acts of sexual violence against minors and a young man.

During today’s proceedings, the last witnesses testified in court, three persons nominated by the accused to defend him. The witnesses who mainly contributed to the issue of the character of the former head of the National Theater, also referred to issues of rivalry in the professional space of the artist.

On the stage was the former partner of the actor and director, who testified that in the four years of their relationship, Lignadis “treated me with great tenderness and I had not seen any element of evil and violence. We broke up amicably and all these years his behavior was flawless “. The witness referred to colleagues of the accused “who were jealous” of his own reputation.

Prosecutor: So their envy has reached such a point that we end up here?

Witness: I do not know. But it is the envy of the professional and the envy of people bitter in the erotic field. Some of them will want to destroy him. Maybe something starts professionally and people with erotic frustrations are added there. I do not have anything more as an element and that is why I do not say specific things.

Prosecutor: Why did you come here today?

Witness: I was stunned by everything I heard. I saw a poem of my own satirical content, long after we broke up, being analyzed on a morning show as if it were a minor poem. It was a personal element of mine that they got on TV and in a newspaper. I felt bad. And because they presented him as a monster.

In his own testimony, the decorator and friend of Dimitris Lignadis received many questions about the interior layout of the accused’s apartment, compared to descriptions given by the complainants of their rape. According to the witness “the way the house is described is not the reality. The kitchen and the living room are a separate space and it is not visible. I decorated the house and I know it well”.

Finally, the domestic helper of the accused’s mother, who also took care of his own house, testified that he had never seen anyone else in Dimitris Lignadis’ house from 2011 until the moment he was arrested. “Neither man nor woman, nor clothes that do not belong to him,” said the woman who testified that she did not know or had ever seen any of the complainants.

Source: AMPE