The news were spread from mouth to mouth and reached all over Greece, shocked the world …
The little boy’s vacation to his grandfather and grandmother village, became an unbelievable tragedy.
When Angeliki Nikolouli began the investigations on this mysterious disappearance couldnt imagine the horror that followed …
The traces of Giorgakis Paraskevopoulos got lost on June 24th , 1992 at the age of 10 at the village Dimitra in mountainous Gortinia. His parents who live in Crete, had sent him for summer holidays at the village of his grandfather and grandmother. His aunt, the sister of his father took care of him along with her children.
The fatal morning the grandfather had a fever and her aunt thought to send Giorgakis with medicine up to the mountain to take care of the elderly Sometime grandfather left him at a mountain spring to fill two bottles with water and went to his sheeps. When he returned he found there the bottles at the spring and assumed that the little boy returned to the village. He didnt tell anyone about the incident nor his brother who visited him in the fold.
Relatives found out about the disappearance of Giorgakis when the grandfather returned to the village the next night. Despite investigations of army special group of researchers from Switzerland, villagers and relatives, the child was not found.
Horror scenarios…
Investigations later revealed in an inaccessible part of the mountain, The bottles of water the child tried to fill. Next village resident claimed that he saw a boy with the features of Giorgos coming down from the mountain to the main road. He reported this to authorities forty days after. He revealed what he saw when the priest threatened with excommunication those who knew and did not speak…
Since then an incredible thriller started. Many reported abduction of a child in the main street. The fantasy together with rumors, braided scenarios of terror for parents and children…
Several years later, a shepherd found at a rugged mountain area a kids sports shoe. It was the same size that the missing boy wore.
Shepherd found a shoe
Several years later, a shepherd found in a rugged area of the mountain a children’s sports shoe in the number he wore the missing boy.
Giorgakis from Crete was another person…
Giorgakis mother, Chryssoula Paraskeuopoulou, dramatically appealed for one more time to anyone who knows something to speak even now.
She listened to the testimonials that came at the show.
An information from a pilgrim led the researches to a monastery in Jericho. At that place the viewer had met a little boy, who lived at the monastery. His name was Giorgos and his was from Crete! A little bit later a monk came in contact with Tunnel and clarified that at the specific period and place he was the only Giorgakis from Crete.
Jerichos Archimandrite talked with Aggeliki Nikolouli, but there was no evidence that Giorgakis was there at the specific period. According to other testimonials that came at the show, the secret of little boys disappearance might be hidden at a confession to the villages priest.
Disappearances-legends
Giorgos is one of the children that their disappearances were legends in Greece. Children who are loved as if they were our own. We all hurt for the loss of Giorgakis Paraskevopoulos from Dimitra Gortynia, Annoula from Mani, Ben in Kos, and Nektarios Kordos, who got lost from Pilos.
The disappearance of these children literally caught the Greek authorities sleeping. Then there wasnt any police proper training, nor even the suggestion that they could kidnap children for various reasons. Maybe some fell victim to an accident and the disappearances werent revealed because they were afraid the rage of parents and society.
The families of Giorgakis, Nektarios and other children, waiting for the big return … They want answers to the questions that will haunt them throughout their lives …
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