The 32-year-old Algerian woman, who has admitted to being the mother of the three-year-old girl found dead early Sunday morning on Edem beach in Palaio Faliro, will be brought before the Athens prosecutor on Friday.

She has been transferred from police headquarters to the Flisvos Coast Guard Station, where she is giving a statement as a defendant. Meanwhile, authorities also searched the apartment where she lived with her three children and an elderly Greek man.

Her two sons, aged 4 and 5, have also been brought to the station. A child psychologist is expected to speak with them to determine if they witnessed or understood anything regarding their sister’s death.

The woman claims the little girl slipped and fell multiple times in the bathroom, was injured, and that she was unable to revive her. Out of fear of being undocumented in Greece, she says she decided to take the child to the beach in Palaio Faliro. However, her statements raise more questions than answers, and several key issues remain unresolved, leaving all scenarios open:

The Six Unanswered Questions:

1. Why didn’t she seek medical help?
   Is a mother’s instinct for her child not stronger than the fear of deportation?
2. When exactly did the child fall, and when did she decide to go to the beach—with the two other children in tow?
3. What was she doing for five hours at the beach with her two young sons?
   Authorities have determined she arrived around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday and left at about 2 a.m. Sunday.
4. Are the facial injuries the child sustained related to her death?
   The coroner has ruled the cause of death as drowning.
5. When exactly did the child die, and in what condition did the mother bring her to the beach?
6. Why did the woman leave the beach wearing her dress inside out?
   This detail suggests a hurried departure—perhaps due to something unexpected, like someone approaching, prompting her to flee before being linked to the dead child. That risk was present the entire time she was at the beach with her sons.

As time passes, more details emerge about both the mother and the children’s father. The 32-year-old Algerian woman had applied for asylum in January 2020, but her application was rejected at the second stage in August 2022. A second request was also rejected just ten days ago.

She had previously been charged with child endangerment after one of her children, then just two years old, was found alone at the entrance of the apartment building where they lived.

The children’s father, a 43-year-old Algerian man, is currently missing. He has a serious criminal record, including arrests for robbery, drug offenses, and three cases of domestic violence. Sources say he is likely outside of Greece, possibly in Syria.