Katerina Perraki, who was attacked by her Pakistani labourer, says that even now 9 months later, she cannot sleep – The attempted rape of a 50-year-old farmer in Ierapetra last December is being prosecuted in the courts today.
The 33-year-old Pakistani land worker will be present today at the Joint Jury Court of Heraklion on accusations of the attempted rape of the 50-year-old Katerina Perrakis, in whose greenhouse he worked, on the evening of December 9, 2022, in the central town of Ierapetra.
The 33-year-old is accused, according to the case file, of attempted rape, causing dangerous bodily harm, carrying a weapon and using a weapon.
The 50-year-old farmer, two days after the nightmare she experienced at the hands of her near-rapist, had spoken to Nea Kriti without hiding her face and identity, asking for the arrest of the young man (who fled) so that he can be brought to justice and pay for the harm he did to her.
The police officers of the Ierapetra Security Department in a reasonable amount of time finally located and arrested the Pakistani land worker and with the case file they created against him they took him to the prosecutor, who then decided on his temporary detention in Tripoli prison.
Speaking on the morning of Friday, September 22, with Katerina Perrakis, she said that “the accused, unrepentant, continued to bother me by phone even from prison, where he had found a way to have a mobile phone.
:Since then he has been trying to justify his act with funny claims, saying that he had consumed a large amount of alcohol, which is not true, because a short time before the attack he made on me, he was working normally in my greenhouse.
“He cannot understand that I have lost sleep since that day. I can’t sleep because his barbaric acts come to my mind. The ferocity with which he hit me on the head, face, chest and all over my body… My fear at the sight of his knife, with which he threatened to kill me, if I don’t let him indulge his sick appetites.
“However, I managed to find the strength, with the help of God, to shout loudly, to ask for help to escape from him, so that he would run away.
“I know that I have entered financial and psychological issues because I cannot afford the legal costs and the psychological suffering, since I will have to face the face of this barbaric man again. It is difficult for me to relive the same nightmare in the courtroom.
“But I have confidence in my lawyer Mrs. Marina Panagiotakis, who expressed her desire to support me legally and I thank her for that.”
It was Friday afternoon, December 9, 2022, and the sun had just set.
The then 32-year-old young land worker, of Pakistani nationality, had just finished working from the greenhouse, took his motorbike, went to Ierapetra, had a bath at his house, changed clothes and returned to Kendri, where he surprised and beat with incredible ferocity the 50-year-old farmer and attempted to rape her at knifepoint, which was finally avoided due to a strong resistance and struggle in which the victim showed that she would not give in to his sick appetites.
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