A 27-year-old Bulgarian man suspected of having murdered his four-year-old daughter and then cutting her up to dispose of the body was on Tuesday remanded in custody, after testifying before the 10th examining magistrate in Athens.
The unlucky girl’s mother also appeared before the magistrate and was then transferred back to the central police headquarters in Athens after receiving an extension until Thursday to prepare her testimony.
The 27-year-old testified without a legal counsel, while the child’s mother was accompanied by her lawyer.
Escorted by heavy police force. both were angrily denounced by citizens as they exited the magistrate’s office.
The suspect had earlier confessed to disposing of his daughter, four-year-old Anna Borisova, by cutting up and boiling her body, then throwing the various parts into dustbins.
The child’s disappearance was originally reported by her grandmother, also a Bulgarian national, who at first claimed the girl had been kidnapped by an acquaintace of hers. Police had interviewed the father, who is a drug addict, but let him go for lack of evidence. Genetic and other evidence found later linked him to the crime and an arrest warrant was issued.
Presenting the results of the police investigation into the disappearance and suspected murder of four-year-old Anna Borisova on Tuesday, Attica Security Police head Brigadier Christos Papazafiris told the press that there was no chance of “finding even one bone from the four-year-old’s body”.
He said the evidence gathered by police pointed to an “particularly heinous” crime committed by the girl’s father, a 27-year-old Bulgarian national and drug addict, unmatched in both Greek and global police history. According to Papazafiris, the suspect appeared to have essentially reduced her to a pulp in order to dispose of the body.
The head of the Crimes Against Life and Property Department Giorgos Papasifakis said the date of the crime has been narrowed down to the period between April 8 and April 10, in the run-up to Orthodox Easter. Especially shocking to police was the fact that the suspect subsequently sold his daughter’s belongings – her crib, pushchair and toys – to a Romanian man for the sum of 55 euros.
Police believe the 27-year-old’s motive was jealousy, because the girl’s 25-year-old mother, also a Bulgarian, had a boyfriend in Germany that gave her money and the suspect feared he would be abandoned.
Regarding the mother’s role in the case, the police said there was no evidence that she had known anything about the child’s murder. They said that she was currently under observation by a psychiatrist and had not been told the grisly details of the killing.
The suspect, on his part, claims to have found the child dead on the morning of Orthodox Good Friday and admits to then acting to dispose of the body in the ways described above.
Based on the evidence collected, the 27-year-old has been charged with murder committed in a calm state of mind and with disrespecting the dead, as well as moral instigating false evidence by a witness and weapons use. The 25-year-old mother of the child has been accused of exposing the child to danger resulting in death and giving false evidence.
(source: ana-mpa)
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