The testimony of the person who called the police in the morning and reported that a 46-year-old man was killing his father beneath their home on Gytheiou Street in Glyfada is chilling.

The neighbor of both perpetrator and victim speaks of a deadly ambush that the 46-year-old had set for his father. As soon as he saw him, he began stabbing him with a knife, while the 80-year-old was shouting, “Help, Holy Mother, save me.”

As he says, the only thing the defenseless victim managed to say to his son and killer before dying was: “My child, I’m dying now, don’t kill me anymore”…

“I heard the father’s screams, shouting ‘help, Holy Mother, save me.’ The man was getting ready to go to church, as he did every Sunday—it was his routine—and his son had set an ambush and finished him off. It happened in the building’s pilotis, right next to where the father parks his car; that’s where he lay in wait. The father didn’t react, and before finishing him off he told him, ‘my child, I’m dying now, don’t kill me anymore.’ And then silence. The perpetrator didn’t speak at all; at some point he even put on church music, a liturgy, so that his father’s screams wouldn’t be heard,” the eyewitness says.

The victim:

The car in which the body of the 80-year-old was found

The perpetrator had psychological problems

Twelve years ago, the perpetrator had also killed his own mother in exactly the same way. At that time, the 46-year-old, who suffers from serious psychological problems, was arrested for his mother’s murder and sentenced to 16 years in prison.

On April 2, 2018, he was released from prison by order of the Piraeus prosecutor’s office, under the conditions:
a) that he reside at Gytheiou Street 11 in upper Glyfada, at his father’s home, and
b) that he report to the local police station on the 1st and 16th of each month.

According to records from the Glyfada Security Department, he complied regularly, with his last appearance recorded on January 16, 2026. According to the files of the Domestic Violence Office of Alimos, he had not been involved in any incidents since 2018, nor had there been reports of domestic violence or other episodes.

“I killed my parents and now I will kill my siblings”

Today, shortly after 8 a.m., neighbors who saw the 46-year-old attacking his father called the police. A short time later, officers arriving on Gytheiou Street found the lifeless body of the elderly man in the trunk of a car and the son inside the apartment.

According to information, upon his arrest the 46-year-old allegedly told police officers: “I killed my parents and now I will kill my siblings.”

According to the testimony of a female neighbor, the 46-year-old had not been living with his father in recent years but visited him once every four months. His parents were divorced, and before her murder, his mother had been living with him and her younger daughter in another house in the same neighborhood.

The murder of his mother

As mentioned above, on March 29, 2014, the son of the unfortunate 80-year-old man had taken his mother’s life in the same manner. At the time, the then 34-year-old inflicted multiple knife wounds on his 59-year-old mother, who was found dead in the home where she lived with her son.

According to reports, the perpetrator went to the Glyfada police station that evening and told officers that he wanted to surrender because he had killed his mother in the bathroom of their home.

Police officers, seeing the condition of the 34-year-old man, checked his claims, went to the address of the house, and found the body of the 59-year-old woman lying in a pool of blood, stabbed to death in the bathroom. The officers arrested the 34-year-old and requested the assistance of psychiatric authorities.

What raises questions is how the man was later able to move freely and what happened during all those years up to today, when he killed his father in the same way.

“We expected it to happen,” neighbors say

Neighbors of the perpetrator told reporters that they expected something bad to happen. “Here in the neighborhood, in 2014 I think, that’s when he slaughtered his mother. Then he was imprisoned; they found that he wasn’t well psychologically and so on, but at some point he was released. We saw him around the neighborhood, we said good morning, he replied, but we always had this thought in the back of our minds, and now we learn that he killed his father,” said a resident of Gytheiou Street in Glyfada.

As the resident explained, they noticed the police presence in the morning and realized something had happened: “We had just woken up for coffee and saw the police, the patrol cars; we said something must have happened, and we went out and found out.”

He continued: “It was what we expected, because we had heard that he had many psychological problems. He didn’t talk to people, he was very introverted, he was always like that. The parents were separated, there were problems between father and mother, and that’s why the murder happened. Not here, the mother’s murder—it happened elsewhere, because she lived separately. Then, after he killed the mother…”