"I was close to death many times, he was suffocating me"/ Being abused by her husband, the Albanian woman confesses her horror: He held me hostage and...

Greek authorities have received the testimony of 22-year-old Dafina Kurti, who was raped and held hostage at home for two years by her 28-year-old husband Aurel Kurti.

Her testimony has shocked judges and investigators, report the Greek media, Gegonota.neës and Protothema. The 22-year-old woman said that she came to Volos in 2021 from Albania, after marrying her 28-year-old compatriot, Aurel Kurti, a "wild" person and never learned to speak Greek, because she had never had contact with anyone. She and her child, who experienced abuse from the womb, lived inside a closed house.

As soon as she arrived in Volos, her husband forbade the 22-year-old to have any contact with the outside world, and their house seemed uninhabited. The images were published by the Greek media.

He beat her severely when the gender of the child was revealed as she did not want a girl and since then beatings were the daily routine of the 22-year-old, writes Gegonotaneës. When the child was born, they lived for five months with closed doors. Mother and baby never saw the light of day. In the courtyard and only in the courtyard they were allowed to go out, after five months. The wood was daily and merciless, and the mother was neither allowed to visit the doctor for the child's vaccinations nor to call a doctor at home. The shopping was done by the 28-year-old, who sometimes worked in construction and sometimes in livestock.

Yesterday evening and as the woman screamed, the screams that had been heard before, of violence and beatings, mobilized the neighborhood. Neighbors came outside the house and knocked on the door, while calling the police. After the 28-year-old realized there was no threat, he opened the back door to escape and neighbors restrained him and held him there until police arrived.

He was choking when the neighbors intervened

Kur policia arriti në banesë panë nënën që kishte përqafuar fëmijën e saj, ndërsa ishte e mbuluar me gjak dhe me shenja në fyt. Menjëherë është lajmëruar një ambulance dhe gruaja dhe fëmija u dërguan në spital. 22-vjeçarja nuk di greqisht dhe me ndihmën e një bashkatdhetari u shpjegoi mjekëve dhe policisë se e kapën bashkëshortin pak para se ta vriste duke i futur duart në fyt.

"I ate even stronger wood, I was close to death many times. He threatened me that if I fled to Albania he would come and kill my parents", she said in her testimony and described the man as a man who followed the rules of the mafia. The 28-year-old was sent to the investigator yesterday, while the mother and the child are under protection by order of the prosecutor. In his appearance before the prosecuting authorities, the author was left speechless and seems to have understood neither the seriousness of the events nor the importance of being referred to justice for crimes.