Upper Liosia: “I couldn’t defend myself, she started catching me everywhere,” says the woman who denounced attempted rape by a bus driver

The Live News show spoke the woman who reported an attempt by a bus driver at noon on Saturday (23/03/2024). The woman describes what lived in a bus in Ano Liosia and recounted to police the horror she lived when she realized she had been trapped, as well as the dialogues she has constantly at the edge of her mind. The case is in the hands of the District Attorney’s Office, with the OSA already having called for explanations of the 52-year-old defendant. “I have nightmares in my sleep, I can’t sleep. I don’t get the picture out of my head, it doesn’t leave me the way he looked at me.” The year All took place at noon last Saturday at the bus terminal on Upper Liosia Road. “The bus had 4-5 people and I was in there, people went down to the trunk. I was left alone, I get up and say, ‘I’m sorry sir, does he stop here?’ and he tells me ‘this is where the stops end and the passengers get off’. I tell him ‘I’m scared, I’m not going down here now’. He tells me ‘ go up the mountain. I didn’t talk. We passed stop, stop, stop, I tell him ‘What should I do on the mountain, sir?’ He says ‘I’ll sit for 10 minutes, I’ll come back if you want a little further down.’ I say ‘My God, now he will hurt me’. The 53-year-old describes moments she will hardly forget. She’s panicked and remembers her dialogues with the driver. “Stop the bus in the pines, in the grove. I was back in the chair alone, the gentleman stood up with closed doors. He didn’t even open the doors, does he say ‘Do you want a cigarette? ’ I say ‘no sir I don’t want a cigarette’. He says ‘my name is … and I am divorced, you are a very beautiful woman’. I didn’t answer him. ‘Do you want something?’ Every second passes slowly and painfully for her, with the driver, from time to time, to realize that what she does will have consequences. “I was pulling, ‘please, I don’t get anything’ I say to him, ‘ Did I ask you something?’ I say, ‘I don’t want anything, please’ I tell him. He says ‘ Will you report to me? ’ He got it, but I didn’t answer him, I say ‘I’ll see where he’ll take it’. He said he was sorry. He says ‘sorry, you can hardly do anything’, ‘Of course nothing can be done,’ I say to him and he says again ‘will you report to me?’ I never answered him again, then he opened the doors and smoked a cigarette.” Soon after, the woman gets off the bus and without wasting time, she goes to a police station. “He left me up to the food, I went to the stop, I called my husband. We went to the police together, it wasn’t dark. His fingerprints will show. I begged him ‘please’. I was forced, pushed. He gestured at me, he ran into me, he caressed me, he patted me.” “I couldn’t defend myself” Police officers are in possession of the clothes they wore, while the accused driver was receiving biological material. “That time you’re losing it, this thing has never happened to me before. I said to me, ‘Stay calm, just let him do nothing’. Justice has the floor for the case, with colleagues of the 52-year-old driver assessing the facts that see the light of day. “They ask me how I felt? What do I feel? The picture, these sprinkles, my husband approaching me and hating me, do you understand what I’ve become?” As she says: ‘ First of all I gave him no reason, ‘look’ I say ‘I am married’. He didn’t care, he put his handles on my shirt. Rub my skin inside. Rub my belly. Getting caught by my pants, normal gesture, normal gestures. I was pulling from behind, ‘please’ I say, ‘Please don’t want anything, please too’ I say to him. He kept going. He says: ‘ Why don’t you? Don’t you like me?’, ‘Please’ I say ‘take your hands’. I couldn’t defend myself, I’m saying now whether I’m gonna defend myself or take my belt off, strangle me, poke his eyes or have a knife. He pulled me, there he continued, there gestures and said to me: ‘Do you have nice skin, say, say, what is this thing? ’ He grabbed my chest, he grabbed my belly, he caught my cool. Until my glasses caught, the cross on my neck caught.” The 53-year-old asks for the driver’s exemplary punishment and announces that she will not leave the whole issue, despite the apologies she heard from the 52-year-old about what she went through. Free in terms the Free driver by imposing the restrictive condition of compulsory appearance once a month at the police station in his area was left the bus driver. The defendant apologized to the interrogator and denied the charge claiming he did not attempt to rape the passenger as she has reported. “The defendant denies the charge. She cannot know why this woman has submitted this report, she attributes it either to an intent to blackmail or to a psychiatric problem. He can’t give another explanation, it’s drawn,” he says, speaking to MEGA the defendant’s lawyer, Emmanuel Gregoriadis.