When asked if she saw any members of the Fragiadakis family, she replied, “Yes, I saw them all. I was coming to the memorial and shouting ‘Fanouri.’ They all turned their pistols on me, trying to ‘play’—meaning shoot—at me. But I don’t blame them for what God decided to put under their houses. Some of them got killed too. I have a 10-year-old girl, a 6-year-old, a 3-year-old, a 1.5-year-old, and a 5-month-old. Do you understand that? They wanted to kill both my husband and me, and leave our girls on the streets. There were fifty of them, and my husband was killed in the car. And as if killing him wasn’t enough, they were shooting around the car and taunting him,” Mrs. Kargaki added.

When asked if they spoke to her, she said, “They didn’t say a word. Only when I shouted ‘Fanouri’ did they all turn their guns in my face. Oh my God.”

“He didn’t live a minute.”

“Fanouri never got out of the car. By the time he arrived, he was already executed. The coroner told me he was shot with both a Kalashnikov and a pistol. His body was dismembered. He didn’t have time to move his arm or his head. If the car ended up on its side, why was he killed before it tipped over? I wish my poor man had had time to get out. If only he had escaped. They killed him for me. He didn’t live a minute, the coroner said. Not a minute,” she said.

The widow insists they knew the 39-year-old would pass that spot because “every morning he goes to tend the animals.” “They saw Fanouris passing by, and as they came down, they aimed at him. They told me they were shooting from the rooftops and the stairs,” she added.

“Did my husband kill the 56-year-old from inside the car?”

She explained that the 56-year-old “died because they were coming down from above and killed their aunt. My husband was in the car, not on the rooftops. They executed him. The women might have come from elsewhere. I’m telling you, they were shooting around the house. Everyone had Kalashnikovs and pistols.”

“He had nothing to do with the bombs.”

Mrs. Kargaki denies any connection between her husband and the bomb found at a Fragiadakis family member’s house, stating that the 39-year-old was in a neighboring village at the time: “They shouldn’t lie on the news. Let them tell the truth and say where my husband really was. He was in Fates, and I called him to ask, ‘What’s going on in the village? My girls are going back there, and I don’t know what’s happened.’ He had an alibi. He was in Fates. He had nothing to do with the bombs. Then he came home to Vorizia, took our girls home, and we locked ourselves in, not coming out until morning.”

“I called him while he was in Fates and said, ‘Fanuri, I heard a loud boom. Where are you? Come home because the girls are in the village.’ He said, ‘Maria, I’m coming.’ He took the girls and they came home,” she said.

“Instead of respecting that we weren’t retaliating, they set up an ambush.”

When asked how they knew the explosion had happened at that house, she said, “Because they came out and started shooting at my sister-in-law’s house. I called and asked, ‘Where are the shots?’ and my sister-in-law said, ‘They’re killing us. Hang up and I’ll call the police.’ She called the police, but no one came.”

“To his sisters, they were ‘playing,’ but neither my husband nor my brothers-in-law went out to confront them. We respected that there was something going on at their house until we found out who was responsible. But once they found out, they burned us out. They locked me out of my house. And instead of respecting that, they ambushed my husband in the morning while he was running to the cattle and shot him with a Kalashnikov and a pistol,” she continued.

“Last year, they stabbed my sister’s son.”

“We never had any relationship with those people. Last year, they stabbed my sister’s son again. They were playing with their pistols and him in the car. A first cousin caught the Kalashnikov. Imagine, my nephew didn’t have enough to eat, and they gave him clothes and food. That day, he went home, took the Kalashnikov, and ‘played’ with my nephew. If it hadn’t been for his mother stopping him, he would have been killed too,” Ms. Kargaki said.

“If we wanted to destroy the house, we would have taken the whole thing down, not just the windows.”

Regarding the damage to the Fragiadakis family’s house, she said, “We told them that since we were having problems, they shouldn’t come to our neighborhood. It’s family, right next to my sister-in-law’s house, in a big village. We said, ‘What sense does it make to keep having problems?’ We never threatened them. If we wanted to destroy the house, we would have taken the whole thing down, not just the windows. Maybe they did it to get insurance money or someone did it to close our houses. We had nothing to do with it.”

“He was a gentleman.”

“Come see what they’ve done to my girls, so you don’t miss anything. My husband was a gentleman. I never lacked anything at home. There wasn’t a wedding or baptism this year he didn’t show up to support. If anyone needed help, my husband was the first. He would call his friends and say, ‘The cypress is next to you, don’t be afraid.’ They even killed my cypress, that’s the truth,” Mrs. Kargaki said.

“I don’t know how to tell the children.”

Maria said she will raise the five children alone now that “the one who fed them is gone. Come and see what will become of me.” She said she hasn’t told the children yet: “I don’t know how to tell them. I will only tell the older ones when the time is right. They loved their father. I don’t know how I’ll manage. They call me and ask, ‘Where is my father? Why won’t you give us the phone?’ What am I supposed to say?”

Finally, about the children hearing the shots, their mother said, “My eldest son hugged all the girls in the room so they wouldn’t get hurt. The shooting lasted three minutes. When I saw my husband shot in the car, I didn’t go home. We put him in the carriage and rushed to get help.”