A woman of Algerian origin, the mother of the 4-year-old girl whose body was found on a beach in southern Athens six days ago, brought in for questioning early Friday morning. She has already confessed to have abandoned the probably dying child at Edem beach claiming “an accident.”
Together with the woman also the other two minor children seen on several CCTV footage have been brought in to police station.
Police located the woman in Kato Patisia district of Athens following broadcasting of CCTV screenshots and a taxi drivers’ mobilization as the woman had returned home from the beach with a taxi, after she had abandoned the child at the beach and the stroller behind a bush nearby.
Officers started closely monitor the multi-story building in Kato Patisia since Thursday night and intervened when the woman with the children came out searching for a taxi around 7 o’ clock on Friday morning.
There seems to be no father/husband present in the family.
The woman is of Algerian origin, 40 years old and is illegally in Greece, state broadcaster ERT reported.
Short before 12 noon, media reported that the woman has confessed that she left the child at the Edem beach.
According to her alleged testimony, the woman told police that “the child was sick and slipped in the bathroom of their home suffering a bump on the head.” She thought the child was dead and did not dare to take it child to a hospital as she was illegally in the country and had no documents thus fearing sh would be arrested and deported. She decided to bring the child at the beach and abandon it there, ERT reported first information from the woman’s testimony.
The father of the children is of Syrian origin and has allegedly disappeared. The woman said that he was violent towards her and the children.
Based on this initial information leaked to the press, there are still some crucial points to be clarified with the most important of them to be: Was the little girl still alive when her mother abandoned her at the beach in the early morning hours of Sunday?
According to the autopsy report found water and sand in the girl’s lungs.
The woman is currently kept at the Headquarters of the Greek Police in Athens, officers of the Coast Guards are expected to arrive for her official testimony. A reconstruction of the events at the beach is expected to take place, as well.
The case has shocked the Greek society and presented a challenge for the authorities to identify a dead child nobody had reported as “missing” or claimed five days after it was found at a beach.
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