The unfortunate 70-year-old woman succumbed to her severe injuries on Sunday morning (09.11.2025) after being brutally and unprovoked attack by a 38-year-old homeless man, at the end of October, in Glyfada.
The family of the 70-year-old woman who was hospitalized for 18 days, after being attacked with a stone by the 38-year-old homeless man while she was feeding neighborhood kittens, lost her battle with life.
It is recalled that the man who attacked the woman with a stone, after causing her serious injuries by hitting her with a hammer, tried to escape from the scene. However, the perpetrator was located by police officers of the DI.AS Team. and was arrested for causing serious and dangerous bodily harm, while it was decided to remand him in Korydallos prisons.
The 38-year-old was facing serious psychiatric problems and had escaped a total of 18 times from psychiatric institutions in the country.
The woman’s son-in-law spoke on the show “Developments Now” about the pain they have been forced to experience all these days, the relatives of the 70-year-old woman.
“(He left) this morning at 7 p.m. He couldn’t stand it, no he couldn’t stand it. It seemed because the blow was heavy. It was heavy and he couldn’t cope. Based on what we were told by eyewitnesses who were there, he had hit her on the head with a stone,” described the 70-year-old’s son-in-law.
“He spoke only in sense”
The elderly woman had been hospitalized in critical condition since the day she was found unconscious on the street. Despite the persistent efforts of the doctors, she did not finally manage to overcome her serious injuries.
- Had you spoken to her at all or was there no communication at all after the setting?
- No, only meanings, he didn’t speak. He woke up a little, my wife was talking a little and then this…
The daughter of the 70-year-old woman who watched her mother die every day has been plunged into grief.
“In such cases it is not… He is also an only child. She has also lost her father, things are difficult, it is very difficult. You can’t imagine what this woman has to focus on first, the family with three children, her mom, her job. Where should he go first? You tell me,” he then added.