Volos: Father shoots dead his daughter’s rapist

A 50-year-old man in Volos, central Greece, voluntarily surrendered to police on Tuesday afternoon confessing that he killed brother-in-law. The 33-year-old victim had allegedly sexually abused the perpetrator’s daughter for almost a decade.

The suspect, an Albanian national, claimed responsibility for the murder after discovering that his brother-in-law from his second marriage had been sexually abusing his 18-year-old daughter from his first marriage since she was nine.

The victim had recently started to blackmail the young girl for money, threatening to release online videos and photographs from the past sexual abuse.

Set under immense distress, the girl confided to her father on Tuesday morning about the nightmare she has been living for nine years.

Her father called his wife and asked for her brother to go help him with a problem he had with his car, local media reported. He took his hunting rifle, for which he had a license, and met the man in a remote area. He first hit him on the face with the rifle and as the victim tried to take it away, he shot him in the chest.

Right afterwards, he called the police.

The victim’s body was discovered on the provincial road linking Volos and the village of Zagora on Mount Pilio, near his car.

“He poisoned my child, I did what I had to do, I’m a father,” the perpetrator reportedly told police. He added, among others, that his daughter, who studies in another city, has kept asking hm for money in recent times and that she was due in rent and other bills.

He has been living in Argalasti for the last 12 years and working as a land worker.

He was taken to prosecutor on Wednesday afternoon.

PS interesting to note that many Greeks on social media express understanding for the father claiming that he most likely had “no trust to the corrupt justice system in the country.”