The aim, according to ERT, is to obtain new information regarding the actions of the 44-year-old through the examination and in particular to have full knowledge regarding the style of text messages he exchanged with underage schoolgirls, the communications he had through online applications and social media and the videos revealing his gruesome deeds.
In the meantime, the lawyer of the victims reveals that his principals fear that he continued his activity until his arrest. “They had the feeling that even today as we speak there are such behaviors, and that there are children who are at risk from these types of actions,” says the lawyer of the victims, Antonis Pepelassis.
The 44-year-old apologized to Anakritria on Friday for the charge of serial rape and the abuse of minors in carelessness. It is worth noting that the 44-year-old was known to the authorities already in 2020 when, according to police sources, he had taken a rifle and had lock his wife inside the house. He had hit her and threatened to cause harm and even needed the intervention of a negotiator to end the serious domestic episode.
Ilioupoli: The mother of the tae kwon do coach accused of rape challenges: “I don’t know who these girls are who did the damage”
The mother of the tae kwon do coach provokes, wanting to get rid of the tae kwon do coach who shocked the Panhellenic nation with his sick mind and the repeated rapes of his female students at the school in Ilioupoli.
The criminal prosecution and the offenses that burden the 44-year-old coach
A few hours ago, criminal charges were brought once morest the coach in question for serial rape and a number of offenses as his rich activity allegedly started in 2009 and lasted until 2020. The 44-year-old coach requested and received a deadline to apologize on Friday (24 /3) in which case the investigator and prosecutor will decide on his further criminal treatment and development.
Ilioupoli: The mother of the tae kwon do coach is challenging
“All this is like lightning for me. I can’t understand it because he has never shown such signs,” said the mother of the 44-year-old coach Tae Kwon Do from Heliopolis who is accused of raping his underage students.
“My son has been a good, obedient child since he was little, as has my daughter. I have raised my children with principles and difficulties. He started the sport at a young age and reached a good level, he joined the National Team”, initially noted the coach’s mother.
“It was never brought to my attention that my son was using drugs. He was always once morest these things, he was an athlete. He didn’t drink and ate healthy,” he added.
“He had never given signs of what he is accused of, otherwise I would have seen it,” he insisted, adding that “He didn’t have many relationships in his life. Before getting married, he had two or three relationships. He was steady and collected. He had never shown anything strange. Then he got married, had his child. He had some difficulties in his marriage, but that’s it.”
“All this is like lightning for me. I can’t figure it out because he has never shown any such signs. Never. I don’t know who these girls are that have done this damage. What I hear is outrageous stuff. I don’t know how this all came regarding and who wanted to do this evil,” he continued.
Regarding the separate space that the 44-year-old kept in his gym, he claimed that following his divorce he was facing financial difficulties and that he had designed it so that he might sleep there.
Ilioupoli: The license of the tae kwon do coach accused of rape is revoked by the GGA
The Department of Sports Coaches of the GGA, following the order of the Deputy Minister of Sports, Lefteris Avgenakis, immediately began the process of revoking the license to practice the profession of the Tae Kwon Do coach, who falls under the obstacles of article 3 of Law 2725/1999, following the prosecution of the Prosecutor’s Office for criminal acts.
According to the same information, the association of the coach in question (A.S. Iris Ilioupolis) had never come to register and be legalized, through the electronic Register of Athletic Associations, which has been operating since 2020, while it does not even have a Special Athletics Recognition.
At the same time, speaking to ERT, his colleague and friend, Ioannis Chiotakis, gave revealing information regarding the 44-year-old Tae Kwon Do coach in Ilioupoli, who is accused of raping his underage female athletes for more than 10 years.
Mr. Chiotakis emphasized that the 44-year-old very often put underage athletes on his bike and drove around openly with them. He had won everyone’s trust so much that he did not need to be isolated with the girls, but returned to Ilioupoli, morning, noon, night.
At the same time, he stated that until a few years ago he knew that the defendant did not have a coaching degree, but he had not clarified whether he obtained a professional license along the way or not.
But he also made another revelation concerning a serious incident of domestic violence:
The 44-year-old, while estranged from his wife, had gone to their house, had a wild fight, broken almost the entire house and then climbed onto the roof with a rifle and threatened gods and demons. He threatened to kill himself and do harm.
“I learned from his ex-wife that he went into the house, broke everything and brought a hunting rifle with him. Security measures had been imposed, not to come within 300 meters of his wife. Then someone had to intervene, someone had to look. He should not have continued to coach athletes or be in any of our facilities. It’s a shame,” said Mr. Chiotakis.
He often saw the 44-year-old going either with his car or his motorcycle, picking up a girl from school, while he expressed the opinion that there may be other girls – his victims. “I believe that if it goes further back, the issue will be other children as well. I also know most of the female athletes and students of the school” he emphasized.
His statement is sensational, that when he wanted to ask a victim’s mother what her daughter’s relationship is with the 44-year-old, she attacked him. “They declared that they knew him and that it is not these things. He had gained their trust, he was entering their home. As a human being, he had not shown us any signs of such behavior”, i.e. he was not secretly moving around with the girls. He was returning to Ilioupoli,” he noted. In fact, he had made recommendations to him but he denied that there is anything wrong with his relationship with the girls. He gave the impression of a good family man, as he is also the father of a six-year-old boy.
Regarding the loft he had created inside the school, Mr. Chiotakis emphasized: “He had created a small space of around 15 square meters and at some point when I had visited the school he was asked if anyone lived in the school. He tells me “no, teacher, no one lives in the school. Unfortunately, I live here because I am unable to rent a house of my own for financial reasons.”
Ilioupoli: How the 44-year-old coach “fished” for underage female athletes – his victims
The face and identification details of the 44-year-old tae kwon do coach from Ilioupoli may reveal the exact number of his victims.
The police officers of the Juvenile Protection Sub-Directorate, who are investigating the shocking case of the rape of minor girls, have requested the immediate release of the details of the accused pedophile, in an attempt to determine if there were other victims of his.
The investigations are focused on the last three years, with the authorities estimating that there may be other athletes who may want to speak. A total of five, now adult, girls had allegedly fallen into the 44-year-old’s “nets” between 2009 and 2020. When they experienced the nightmare of sexual abuse, the underage athletes were just 12 to 16 years old.
Painful acts
He approached female students, glorified their athletic abilities and convinced them to join the Ilioupoli tae kwon do club, in which he was a coach. The 44-year-old methodically “fished” for his minor victims, hiding his sick intentions under the “cloak” of his status.
After joining the racing divisions, the girls ended up doing long hours of individual training with the 44-year-old, without their families suspecting. Calvary started from there. The coach isolated the girls and systematically raped them, both in the gym and in his own home, while his wife and minor son were away. Police sources describe the sexual acts as particularly brutal and painful for his minor victims. Five adult athletes of the club, aged 19 to 27, managed to break their silence and reveal what they had experienced.
Cynicism
“Our priority is the safety and happiness of the children you entrust to us…”. With these words in his Facebook post, the 44-year-old coach invites athletes to the club’s summer camp regarding 2 years ago. Security officials believe that, despite the fact that the complaints do not relate to the last three years, it is possible that there are other more recent victims, as the coach continued to have daily friction with underage girls both in the gym and at other organized activities to date from the tae kwon do club.
For this reason, it is expected that the photo and identity information of the 44-year-old man will be made public immediately with a prosecutor’s order, in an effort to find out if there are any other victims of his who may want to contact the authorities.
At the same time in the forensic laboratories of EL.AS. three mobile phones, two tablets, three laptops, a hard disk and a memory card have been sent, which were confiscated during the Police searches of the 44-year-old’s home, car and school. The Authorities will look for evidence in the devices that will possibly reveal the extent of the coach’s action, perhaps other minor victims who have not spoken to the Police.
Violence, threat of suicide
“I saw once that he picked up an athlete, took her home because she was cold. There was a problem. This thing kept happening. With different gymnasts. I’ve been noticing this for over a decade,” complains a neighbor of the 44-year-old in Ilioupoli. In fact, as he mentions, the coach had starred in an intra-family episode a few years ago during his separation. “When he broke up with his wife, he broke into the whole house, took a rifle, went to the roof and said: ‘I’m going to kill myself.’ How does a prosecutor let him have a school?”, he says characteristically. Also, according to information, the same threat, that of suicide, was used by the coach with his minor victims, to convince them not to reveal their nightmare.
The 44-year-old, who was arrested on Tuesday followingnoon, passed the threshold of the courts yesterday. Criminal charges were brought once morest him for serial rape, child abuse, violation of personal data, supply and possession of drugs. He was given a deadline to apologize before the investigator on Friday.
Ilioupoli: Signs of anger once morest the 44-year-old at his club’s facilities
The MEGA camera was found at the club’s premises this morning and recorded footage of angry slogans written on the gym’s premises once morest the 44-year-old.
It seems he had turned the gym locker room into a home. In particular, the coach had turned the mezzanine into his personal space and when someone asked him why he lived there, it seems that he said because he was having a hard time financially.