A coroner ruled on Monday that the cause of death of missing student Vangelis Giakoumakis was suicide. However, some of his relatives claim there are questions that remain unanswered.
According to the coronary report, the decision was based on a single knife wound on the student’s right wrist.
Authorities believe that the 20-year-old, who was enrolled at the Dairy School in Ioannina, in northern Greece, committed suicide on February 6, the day he was reported missing. According to the coroner, the place and the time of death are consistent with the suicide theory. Giakoumakis was found 800 meters from school and the autopsy showed that he died the day he disappeared.
Also, Giakoumakis was left-handed, and the cut in his right wrist point at a self-inflicted wound. According to the coronary report, the student bled to death from the wound.
According to authorities, it is estimated that the young student left the school in the afternoon on February 6 and was recorded by a gas station camera walking towards the direction his body was found. After 500 meters, he turned towards a field next to Pamvotida Lake. No one saw him there, but authorities believe that he cut his wrist with a knife found 1.5 meters from his body.
During the ensuing investigation it emerged that he may have been a victim of bullying carried out by fellow students, some of them from Crete, where Vangelis came from. Several of his fellow students admitted that they teased Giakoumakis but that was all.
However, according to criminal lawyers, after the ruling that Giakoumakis’ death was suicide, the case is closed and no further criminal investigations can be conducted.
George Vidiadakis, an uncle of Vangelis Giakoumakis, talked about the abettors. Vidiadakis said on Greek radio, “It must be suicide, but the point is who led the kid to do that. It is not fair that we have a 20-year-old die and there are so many questions remaining unanswered.”
“Many things must change. I don’t know if we should raise good kids or bad kids so they can survive in this world. All these young men who did what they did to Vangelis, now claim that they don’t know anything or haven’t seen anything. I wish the death of Vangelis can save other children,” said Vidiavakis. He also added that his family will take legal action so that all the questions on the death of the young man are answered.
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