An intervention calling for the negative comments about the appearance of the tragically lost Myrto from Kefalonia to stop was made by her sister on the show “Truths with Zina” on Thursday afternoon.

The 52-year-old woman, in her message, urged people to stop commenting on what Myrto was wearing and whether she had had lip enhancements, and instead focus on the essence of the matter, which is that a young person lost their life.

“I don’t know what the case file says and I cannot accuse like this just because I am hurt, but there is a crime, a mistake, a situation that is ugly,” she said, and added: “Is your problem to sit and comment on social media that this girl had lips done? That she was ‘plastic’? That she went out and lived her life? Is that the issue? Or that there are people who abandoned her and she died? You should be ashamed. We sit and give importance to things we should be ignoring right now. We give value to people whose souls exist only to spread mud.”

The message of Myrto’s sister

Visibly upset, Myrto’s sister said on the show: “I want to ask, if not the whole world, then the local community here, in Kefalonia, which is the place I may not have grown up in because I was in Athens, but it is the place I love and honour when I go there, I beg you, from the bottom of my heart, to show some respect, if not for the event itself, then for its outcome. A person was lost, a 19-year-old soul. Stop exploiting the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ just to gain a minute of worth in your lives. I beg you very much.

I understand that some people, from their homes, may have been raised not to look at the depth of a problem, and instead focus on the surface to say something clever and get a ‘well done’, a like, or whatever. And they throw mud, to feel that they are something in life, that their life has meaning. I am tired all my life. What does the father do, what does the mother do, what does the sister do, why does she have nails, why does she have lips, why was she wearing a mini skirt. Is that the problem? How the child was and how she dressed?

Is that the problem we have to deal with right now? I don’t know what the case file says and I cannot accuse like this just because I am hurt, but there is a crime, a mistake, a situation that is ugly. We all have children, and your problem is to sit on social media and say what? That this girl had lips done? That she was ‘plastic’? That she went out and lived her life? Is that the issue? Or that there are people who abandoned her and she died?

You should be ashamed. We sit and give importance to things that right now we should be ignoring. We give value to people whose souls exist only to spread mud, because I am tired at 52 years old of hearing slander. What did my father do, what did my mother do, what did Myrto’s mother do, what did Myrto do—but you don’t look at what was done to Myrto, you don’t look at what is being done to your children, you don’t look at what is happening in this rotten society.”

A little later, Myrto’s 19-year-old sister also spoke to Alpha’s news bulletin, asking that those responsible for the young girl’s death be held accountable. “The culprits must pay,” she said.