{"id":11941,"date":"2026-06-20T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11941"},"modified":"2026-06-20T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:37:00","slug":"prosecutor-on-mourtzoukou-she-took-pleasure-in-killing-her-victims-without-any-remorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11941","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor on Mourtzoukou: \u201cShe took pleasure in killing her victims without any remorse\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the finding that <b>Eirini Mourtzoukou<\/b> took pleasure in murdering the babies, the prosecutor concluded and recommended that she stand trial before the <b>Mixed Jury Court<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the prosecutor\u2019s recommendation regarding the first indictment against Eirini Mourtzoukou\u2014for the murders of three babies and one attempted murder\u2014describes how this woman operated,<b> against defenseless creatures, including her own two children<\/b>, with the prosecutor noting in particular that \u201cshe enjoyed her victims without remorse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As reported by patrisnews, the prosecutor is recommending that Eirini Mourtzoukou stand trial before a mixed jury court, while emphasizing that the woman was fully lucid and of sound mind during the horrific acts she is accused of committing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has no real emotional connection to anyone or anything and seeks a sense of dominance, control, and ultimately <b>omnipotence while committing her crimes<\/b> which is why she chooses vulnerable victims, that is, on the one hand, defenseless infants incapable of resisting, without any distinction\u2014not even when it comes to the two children she gave birth to herself, with whom there were never any normal emotional exchangesand, on the other hand, her young partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time, I lost my senses,\u201d said the 25-year-old defendant in her confession; she is being held in pretrial detention at the Korydallos Women\u2019s Prison for the murders of her two babies and her godmother\u2019s baby.<\/p>\n<h3>She took pleasure in her victims without remorse<\/h3>\n<p>\u201c<b>Her actions demonstrate in the clearest possible way that she enjoyed her victims, who were at her mercy, without any remorse<\/b>,\u201d according to the prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecutor\u2019s indictment, Eirini Mourtzoukou allegedly killed her sister first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<b>She unleashed her destructive tendencies, revealing her emotional detachment and the dark side of her character<\/b>,\u201d the prosecutor stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to witness testimony, there were other attempts by Eirini Mourtzoukou to harm young children\u2014at least two cases in addition to those for which she is already charged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<b>The defendant\u2019s criminal behavior to date indicates a need for control and power, as she targets young children who are vulnerable<\/b> and unable to resist, demonstrating <b>a lack of empathy, emotional detachment<\/b>, and a need for dominance, thereby seeking a distorted empowerment of her \u2018ego,\u2019\u201d as is characteristically noted.<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas 2020,<b> Irini Mourtzoukou<\/b> is accused of attempting to drown her then-partner in Patras. According to the prosecutor\u2019s indictment, the defendant chose her victim while she was in a defenseless state as she was sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, the <b>25-year-old is alleged to have killed her goddaughter\u2019s young daughter in February 2021<\/b>. Next came her own two children, whom, as emphasized, she murdered while again fully in her right mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018She has the ability to create the appropriate circumstances for her victims\u2019 deaths, staging death scenes and seeking to present herself as the victims\u2019 \u201csavior\u201d rather than their executioner,\u2019 said the prosecutor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor concluded that Eirini Mourtzoukou took pleasure in murdering the babies and recommended that she be tried by a mixed court &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}