A 60-year-old woman, fired a shotgun to thwart a DEDDIE check for electricity theft in a village of Serres. She was sentenced to a total of 5 years imprisonment, a sentence which the court did not suspend or commute, but decided to serve.

The incident took place in February 2020, when the 60-year-old woman, in full view of the DEDO employees, who were accompanied by police officers, grabbed a flopper-type gun, with which she fired once in a straight shot at a police officer, but without injuring him.

“I wanted them to leave and I thought this was the way to do it. It was an act of protest, I didn’t want to kill,” the 60-year-old said, among other things, in her plea before the judges. When she was called to answer to the Serres investigator who, with the consent of a prosecutor, released her, she made statements, issuing threats, saying she even had the right to execute. Based on this statement, she was re-arrested and detained.

The Court of Appeal found her guilty of attempted murder, violence against employees, unlawful carrying of weapons, and gun possession, imposing a 5-year prison sentence; part of which she served as a temporary prisoner and the remainder she is required to serve, according to the verdict of the trial court.

Her 64-year-old partner, who was convicted of criminal offenses, was also charged in the same case and given a suspended prison sentence.