The case of 19-year-old Myrto’s death in Kefalonia continues to raise serious questions as new evidence and testimonies shed light on her final hours. At the centre are allegations of cameras at the accommodation, contradictions by those involved, and statements being examined by the authorities.

The accommodation owner lies, and the camera is allegedly not working

The owner of the accommodation where the unfortunate 19-year-old Myrto from Kefalonia was living in her final hours when her death became known, said she had only rented a room as she was renovating.

The only room available, the landlady had said, according to Live News, was the one where Myrto and her 23-year-old boyfriend were staying and where the tragedy unfolded for the young girl.

However, according to the same report, this is not the case, as two other couples were staying in the same accommodation.

In one was the 18-year-old girl with the 22-year-old Albanian man whom the 26-year-old weightlifter called when he saw that Myrto was not feeling well.
In the other room, the father of the 18-year-old in question was staying with his partner.

How all the tenants were connected

In the first room, on the fateful night, Myrto was staying with her 23-year-old boyfriend. A 56-year-old man and his partner lived in the ground floor room. The 56-year-old is the father of the 18-year-old who lives in the room next to Mirto’s room. The 18-year-old girl is staying with the 22-year-old Albanian that night. The 22-year-old Albanian knows the former weightlifter and according to the 18-year-old’s environment, he knows that his 26-year-old friend is in the room next door with the 23-year-old and Myrto that night.

The hotel owner’s lie

The hotel where it all unfolded has cameras both inside and outside. Footage from inside the hotel has seen the light of day. However, something similar has not happened with the footage from outside.

According to the Mega report, the owner of the hotel claimed that this particular camera was broken and was not “recording”, while this was a lie, as her relative and partner of the 56-year-old asked her not to hand over the footage from the outdoor camera to the police. Which she reportedly did eventually.

“He was shouting at Myrtle “Are you alive? Are you alive?”: What the 18-year-old who was in the room next door with the 22-year-old claims

The 18-year-old who was staying next door to the room where the tragedy unfolded for 19-year-old Myrtofrom Kefalonia, it was she who informed the 22-year-old that his friend, the 26-year-old weightlifter, was staying in the room next door.

The young girl’s entourage claimed on Live News that the 22-year-old accused in the death of Myrto, had visited the 18-year-old the previous day at the same accommodation as he had been staying there since Easter.

On the fatal evening, the 22-year-old had gone out for a drink and arranged with the 18-year-old to meet later in her room.
Before it was time for the 22-year-old to visit her, she heard the 26-year-old weightlifter’s voice from the room next door sometime in the night and recognized him.

She immediately called the 22-year-old and informed him that his friend was also in the hotel.

Later, the 22-year-old informed the 18-year-old that he knew the weightlifter was in the next room after she had called him and told him.

At some point, when the 22-year-old and the 18-year-old were together in the lodging room, they heard shouting from the room where Myrtle was.

The 22-year-old told his girlfriend not to go outside at all and to stay in the room, which she did because she was frightened by the voices she was hearing.

The young man went outside and later contacted his girlfriend by phone. According to her entourage, he told her that when he entered the room where Myrtle was, he saw her lying down and started making air while shouting“Are you alive? Are you alive?”

As he informed his 18-year-old girlfriend, he immediately grabbed Myrto’s jacket and took her and the 26-year-old down to the street so that the ambulance could pick her up.

The first meeting and last video call that ended ‘abruptly’: what the 66-year-old man who sent money to Myrtle on the fateful night claims

What the fate of the fatal murder that killed her was in the hands of the victim?
Following the decision to remand the three young men accused of leaving 19-year-old Myrto in a square in Argostoli in Kefalonia, leading to her death, authorities are still investigating the case in depth. Already, the 66-year-old man who sent money to the 19-year-old on the fateful night has testified twice and, speaking for the first time, described how he met Myrto and what happened on the fateful night when he sent her money.

“I gave a statement which lasted about four hours, and they called me back. 15, the first time, and 16 they asked me for a supplementary one, and I went and handed over my mobile phone,” the 66-year-old told MEGA. He claimed that he was called in a group chat and Myrto was present: “There for the first time, the (…) called me and had a co-call they call it, I don’t know what they call it, the deceased. And he introduced her to me as his friend, and he said the name Myrto, but I didn’t really hold back. I wasn’t particularly interested.”

The 66-year-old described how in the conversation they said “five little things, how are you, how are you. Well thanks. Where are you doing Easter and the rest of it. And I’m thinking about going to work but I don’t know where to go. He was saying something like that. I said, “All right. We didn’t say much. It was just our first contact. Video call.”

Thereafter, “there was a communication by texting, on Good Monday or Good Tuesday, with the deceased. Of the style of what are you doing? How are you? Oh, typical stuff. Nothing special.”

“Give me an IBAN, and I’ll put some money in your account.”

“On the fateful night, 11:38 pm, I received a video call from the deceased, normally dressed, sitting on some steps outside a pharmacy, was it? Was it a bank? I don’t get it. Not in good shape, and she said she left the house. She got into a fight and left the house, and she was going to stay on the benches, and she’s done it before, and she can’t, they don’t understand her, and stuff like that. I told her, okay, they’re parents, there’s a generation gap. She insisted, “I have no money, I have some battery, and I’ll stay on the benches.” Something like that. So she insisted. I say to her, “Look, you don’t have anywhere to go to a friend of yours, I don’t know, one of your own people to stay, and tomorrow is tomorrow, think rationally and see what you’re going to do.” “No, I don’t have anyone.” Well, I say to her, look, give me an IBAN and I’ll put some money in and you can go and find a room to stay in, be safe, get a charger so you can have a place to talk. Get a… have a gin or wine to relax, take a shower, get some sleep and tomorrow you think about what you’re going to do. “Yeah, I don’t know,” he’d say something like that. “No thanks, I don’t want to” and stuff like that. I insisted… He doesn’t send me an IBAN. He sent me a voicemail which I also submitted to the Security and he told me to send it to me with IRIS. And he sent me a number. I suggested her if she wants to come to Preveza. I suggested that I give her the keys in Athens to go and stay alone. Somehow to relax, to get away from this situation, to escape, I guess. That’s what happened,” she claimed.

The 66-year-old went on to say that Myrto sent him a voice message, “thank you very much, and you helped me and stuff like that. At 04:04, I think.” At “04:02 I get a video call from a room where she was on a bed dressed. Black dress, I think she had on. In better condition. Brutal? Brutal, yes. Holding the phone across from her face. So I’d see her, and she’d say, “Here’s a room, I’m okay.” I’m like, “Okay, relax, have a good sleep,” and all that. And just as she was talking, she went to say something to me. I hear the door open. I hear a noise, so to speak. I guess the door opened and somebody came in because he said “oh the (…).” I don’t know if he said Dimitri or not; I don’t remember. I can’t put my hand in the fire. And he hung up my video call abruptly. So. That was the last time I saw her,” he described.

4 a.m. I’m going to video call my son’s classmate?”

The lawyer for Myrto’s family, Panagis Drakulogonas, broke out on MEGA’s air: “Shame and shame. I am not worthy, I have neither the power nor the will to judge anyone. But I do judge situations. Shame is ashamed. Instead of finding a cistern to hide in, one has an opinion. I’m much younger than 66, I get a call from one of my son’s classmates saying “I have a problem with my family” lie one, and I say “get money to go to the hotel”? I’m not going to say “give me your parents’ phone number, kiddo, so I can talk, where are you, I can send your mother, where are you, I can send your father, your brother, your sister”. So, do you realize what we have come to? People have a say in what I am telling you is morally reprehensible. In a cistern, in a well, they must go to be buried. Shame and shame. And when the death of a 19-year-old girl has occurred, is it possible to hear such things? I fall from the clouds. I try to keep my cool and behave according to the code of conduct for lawyers; the procedure dictates. But all right, have mercy. So shame.”

“Shame, shame. A 19-year-old boy died. Four in the morning. And truth be told, we don’t say if it’s true or false. We know that the truth will be revealed because we have confidence in the judicial authorities, the officers of the ELAS, and the investigating authority. At four o’clock in the morning, I’m going to make a video call to my son’s classmate. To have an opinion. The girl had no problems with her family. But even if she did, at least two or three times a week, she sleeps over at her friend’s house anyway. She has her sister, who lives next door. Did she need to go to a hotel? But I’m not getting into that stuff; the main interrogation will bring out a lot of things. They should be ashamed. If they were ashamed, they wouldn’t have come to this. Shame should be ashamed of what they heard,” he added.

A ring of “unlawful acts against sexual dignity”

“We assess that yes (there will be more prosecutions). We, as support for the prosecution, are not prosecuting for God’s sake, nor are we putting anyone on trial or putting anyone on trial. Our legal assessment is this,” Drakulogon noted.