For three hours, a couple in Jerk – an entrepreneur and his wife – lived the ultimate nightmare when armed men robbers who invaded their home, held them hostage.
Martha Palatsidou, the wife of the businessman who They experienced the ultimate nightmare in the hands of robbers inside their home in Alimosdescribed frame frames what they lived.
«For seconds with the husband we thought it was a farce. One marked me with the gun and the other the husband. They took our mobiles out of their hands, lifted me up and put me next to my husband. They opened the window and the third one came in with a sack of ducks, “the victim of the burglary said.
“They insisted that we had pounds, gold, a lot of money. They broke the house, we gave the money we had. We didn’t have much fluid at home. In the first hour they broke drawers, they shouted. The one who kept us did not speak badly. One of the two was brazen, threatened the husband. “
«It went through my mind that we would not go out alive. I begged not to go torture, to hit us directly to finish … I got courage. I don’t know what miracle happened inside me and the fear left. I kept praying inside me. “
With robbers looking frantically money inside the house, suddenly their attention fell into a bag. Then the woman, as she said on Thursday morning (10.04.2025) at Mega, asked him to keep her rosary.
“I took the courage and told him I think he was a good person deeply and asked him for grace. In the bag I had something valuable to me and useless for them. He was impressed, I tell him ‘this for me is of greater value, ”he said.
“I was praying inside me for him and I told him. ‘For me?’ He asked me. Yes I told him, to help the Virgin Mary overcome the obstacles of his life and do a job he will like. “
The robbers finally left as soon as they were informed that the couple’s daughter would return home. Before leaving, the woman gave the robber a picture of the Virgin Mary.
This move surprised the robber, who told her leaving that ‘If it helps me in the Virgin Mary I promise that I will come one day without the mask introducing you and apologizing. ‘
“I tell him I promised you that I would give you the image of the Virgin Mary, to help you say this because he told me in the end ‘if’.
The hoodlums reportedly grabbed jewelry and luxurious watches of about 40,000 euros, and threatened the couple not to talk to anyone.
Authorities are looking for video material from the wider area to reach the traces of the perpetrators, who reportedly spoke Greek.