Dora Bakoyannis revealed what Koufondinas told her about the murder of Paul Bakoyannis

“Paul’s murder was the worst thing I’ve been through in my life, all the other pores abstain from it” noted the talk about his murder, while talking about her battle with cancer and her childhood. Dora Bakoyannis was mentioned, invited to Nikos Hatzinikolaou’s show, in the murder of Paul Bakoyannis. In fact, she admitted for the first time in public that she felt remorse for the support she did not give to her children but accepted from them at that difficult time. “The years after the murder were too difficult. Too hard. To me, Paul’s murder was the worst thing I’ve ever been through. All the other resources are far from it. I could never imagine that it was possible for a man to eat 13 bullets in the back and be so murdered, in the way Paul was murdered. He was a consensual man and that’s why he was murdered, I was told at the trial. I asked Koufontina and he says “if he hadn’t made the national reconciliation.” That’s what drives you crazy! Well, everything drives you crazy,” Dora Bakoyannis first confessed. Dora Bakoyannis then added that “now, looking back, I realize how bad a mother I was at the time because my children supported me and not I supported my children. I was unable to support my children. Which I bring too heavy and is the first time I’ve said it. But I have terrible regrets about this thing. I wasn’t able to just, I couldn’t. I was supported by Alexia and Kostas, who were then 13 and 11 years old. They supported their mom instead of becoming the right thing to do. It was a very difficult time, I don’t wish it to my enemy either.” “I don’t think this wound ever closes. Some people came to me and said “you will forgive” and I replied: “The priests forgive, God forgive, I do not.” There’s no way I’ll ever forgive, there’s no way there’ll ever be a day on which to discuss this matter and to which it never comes back with all its strength. Of course, time heals all wounds and so on, as they say, but there are some wounds that always remain open,” he noted. What he said about cancer Dora Bakoyannis confessed to her battle with cancer that “my first reaction was completely ridiculous, as usual all reactions in such cases are ridiculous. I thought I’d hide it from my kids, from my husband and everything. I put them down a little because, when I found out, I was alone. I wanted to hide it so they wouldn’t get upset and I was scared. We all think we’re irreplaceable and I was so afraid they’d react. Of course, then reason prevailed, my sister, Katerina who is the serious man in this family prevailed. She told me “what nonsense is this” and so on so I told them.” “I must say that they reacted with great calm and maturity. Fortunately, this family seems to get serious, easily screw up. Indeed, this thing lasted 24 hours, at 24 hours I said it in public. Mostly the way my whole family dealt with it, the way my friends dealt with it and all that gave me a very, very great power. Also, the way other people, who have the same illness, contacted me to give me courage. Everything is going well and it was another adventure in my life,” he noted. “The first thought you made what was it? When you heard that there is a serious health adventure here, that went to mind immediately?” Nikos Hatzinikolaou then asked to respond to his guest as follows. “I told you, what my children will do. Children are everything. Children and grandchildren. I’ve never had problems prioritizing my love for anything. My family was always first in the hierarchy. Of course my children would say that “no, you were running more politically than dealing with us” but the reality is that inside me my family is the most valuable thing I have.” “Innight I grew up” He noted that “I love parliament very much. My mom, when she wanted to get rid of me, which happened many times when I was little because I wasn’t a very quiet kid, said “go to the parliament to your dad”. So I was going to go, imagine that I wasn’t going up to the box and touching my chin, I didn’t understand a word, but the atmosphere has been exciting since then. I really liked parliament.” “My childhood was too quiet and calm, with a Mitsotakis who never talked politically at home. Never. At noon we always ate together, at exactly 2 o’clock, it came from anywhere and was… ritual because “the children must eat and say the things.” All the issues were the serious ones that bothered us. Then there were three of us. My childhood ended on the day of the coup. The day the coup took place I was 13 years old and was the end of my childhood.” “In one night I grew up. Abnormal adulthood. I saw my mother in a terrible situation, my father had gone to prison, my brothers were young and from that moment on we entered another phase of our lives. At home, stories, then we left for Paris, Pattakos came and told my mother “Take your children and leave in 24 hours”. We had an old Mercedes that was lucky it was big and had a big trunk for what we put in. Kyriakos was also born, so we had the baby and the German girl, who followed us to the prison and left Greece,” he completed. “It was perhaps the most traumatic I have lived at a very early age”.