A 33-year-old Greek nurse is suspected of killing her three children.
Indicted and imprisoned in April in Athens for the poisoning of her eldest daughter, she is now being prosecuted for the murders of the two other girls, announced on Monday the Athens prosecutors responsible for this over-publicized case in Greece.
Nurse denies all charges
The nurse, from the city of Patras in the Peloponnese (west), was already charged with "intentional homicide" for the death of her eldest, hospitalized several times before succumbing at the end of January at the age of nine.
An autopsy and toxicological examinations had detected the presence of ketamine on the remains of the girl, a veterinary anesthetic also used in humans in some countries.
Criminal proceedings were then launched against the mother.
Placed in pre-trial detention since April in a high-security prison on the outskirts of Athens, the mother, who had been living apart from her husband for a year, has always rejected all charges with investigators and during her hearing in March. .
Greece in shock
After a judicial investigation, prosecutors added charges against her for the murders of her two other daughters aged three and a half and six months, which occurred in the summer of 2019 and March 2021 respectively. According to a judicial source, a recent medical examiner's report confirmed that the death of the two younger sisters was not of natural origin, but the result of asphyxiation.
The case has shaken Greece since the beginning of 2022. During the hearing of the mother of the family at the end of March, angry demonstrations took place in court, the facade of her home was covered with a graffiti: "Death to child killers".
Government spokesman Yannis Economou was then forced to call on the population to "calm".
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