Young Maria, the girl who stabbed three of her classmates at the vocational school where she was studying to be a nurse, wrote about her ordeals in her daily journal.

“I wanted to injure them and not kill them, so as to put an end to all that I was going through,” she told the prosecutor, breaking down in tears while describing the bullying that she was subject to on a daily basis.

In her diary, she writes: “I can, as a weak person, stand on my feet and stand up to them,” she writes at one point after a description of the incredible abuse she had been put through that day.

“One day, God, I won’t be able to take it anymore… Already, I can’t handle this. They made a fool of me again today… Why? They call me a nun and make fun of my frizzy hair. They push me so that they can see the board. I know they are doing this because they want to tease me all the time but I don’t understand why, because I’ve never bothered them so why do they do this… I dream for hours of killing all those who torture me and torture weak people.”

At another point she tells about how the group that was bullying her broke her glasses because she got a good grade. She states that she came to the school to make her parents from Kazakhstan proud but when they got their grades the other students tormented her by stating that she is worth nothing. “I don’t want to kill them, I just want to hurt them. This may sound like a murderous thought but you are retarded for abusing the weak,” she wrote just a day before taking two kitchen knives from her family. She was arrested on Thursday and led to the prosecutor on Friday who then let her go.

Maria’s lawyer, Gianna Panagopoulou, told Proto Thema that her client was a symbol of bullied victims at school. “Imagine how awful it is. A good, obedient, humble girl who is a good student who is finally led to turn to violence because she can’t cope anymore with the harsh conditions,” says Panagopoulou. She is being seen by a psychologist to assess her mental state whereas the trial has been set for June 6.

Following the case of Vangelis Giakoumakis that saw the suicide of a young man tormented by his peers, a number of cases of bullying at schools around the country are coming to light.