Of the night. Of substances. Of the untold silences that rooted in an apartment in Nea Smyrna. It was the home of a father, a mother and a son who had been struggling with drugs for years. And today it became zero. Where a 71 -year -old father stabbed his 45 -year -old son deadlya man who lived for decades trapped in addiction. And who has repeatedly tried to escape. He didn’t. And will not be able to try again.
The scenes that followed are shocked. Voices, panic, police, patrols. Father goes out on the street and screams:
“What did I do? What did I do? “
He still holds in his hands the remnants of a life that has been dissolved slowly, for years, and broke permanently in a second.
Son, dependency, long -term pain
The family, as the testimonies reveal, lived in constant martyrdom. The 45 -year -old, known in the neighborhood, made many attempts to detach but always ended up in the same hell. The hopes of the father and the mother became ash again and again.
Until today, another crisis ended up in a fatal fight.
The timing of the horror
The father claimed to police that his son was in amok state that he was attacked. “I lost them,” he said. He took the knife to scare him. He didn’t want, he says, to kill him. But he killed him.
Instant death. UNKNOWN WOULD.
An eyewitness said:
“We listened to help, I saw someone fly the knife. Then, the father was handcuffed. “
Behind the crime, a defeat of society
It’s not just a family tragedy. It is a crime with deeper roots. In the failures of the welfare state. In exhausting families taking care of toxic dependent relatives. In the loneliness of people who are coming to be converted by carers to perpetrators.
The crime in Nea Smyrna is the horrible climax of a life full of calls for help that have never been loud enough. A trauma that will remain engraved not only in an apartment building, but in the consciousness of those who remember that behind the statistics, there is always a family sinking on its own.