Shocking new details have emerged about the femicide of a 45-year-old woman by her 50-year-old husband in Drama, Greece, on Monday afternoon, 15 June 2026—a case that has sent shockwaves across the country.
A pattern of threats and control
Speaking on ANT1’s morning show The Proino on Wednesday, 17 June, the victim’s uncle revealed that the couple had been experiencing serious marital difficulties in recent weeks. The man repeatedly threatened to take his own life, while the woman—identified as Antigoni—had grown increasingly determined to end the relationship.
Just two weeks before her death, the uncle recounted, the man entered their home armed with a firearm while she was asleep. He woke her up, brandished the weapon, and terrified her into fleeing to her sister’s house. Realising her young son was still at home, she then asked her sister to retrieve him.
Failed interventions
After the incident, Antigoni consulted her psychologist, who advised her to change the locks on her home. Yet despite this precaution, her husband continued to stalk and harass her—what the uncle described as a constant ‘siege.’
‘My niece believed he would harm her,’ he said. ‘I urged her to file a formal complaint and report the threat to her employer. She told me she had informed her supervisor—and the supervisor replied, “We’ll help him.” But when someone threatens another person with a firearm, that person needs urgent, specialised intervention—not support for the aggressor.’
The uncle also criticised local authorities, noting that the man had appeared visibly unwell in public in recent days. ‘If you’d seen him walking the streets, you’d know something was deeply wrong. Were the police officers who responded truly blind? Did they not care?’ he asked. ‘Antigoni had confided in several colleagues that she feared for her life.’
A crime rooted in pathology, not jealousy
Describing the killing in stark terms, the uncle said his niece was stabbed while sleeping—while her husband used a single bullet to end his own life. ‘He showed his utter selfishness and cowardice,’ he said. ‘He wasn’t jealous—he was ill. He saw her as superior, felt inferior, and couldn’t bear to see her happy. He told her, “Every time I see you laugh, I go insane.”’