Famous actor and director Petros Philippidis was sentenced to 8 years in prison on two charges in an attempt to rape jury trial in Athens on Wednesday.
He was unanimously acquitted of the rape of one of the three victims. The court, although it rejected extenuating circumstances, nevertheless released the actor pending appeal. As a precautionary measure, the court imposed a ban on leaving the country and ordered him to report regularly to the police at his place of residence. The court considered that he was unlikely to escape or pose a danger to society – the crimes took place in the theater and on television, which are no longer friendly to him, and he himself declared that he did not want to appear in these places again.
In the summer of 2021, following a meeting of the disciplinary commission of the Association of Greek Actors (Πειθαρχικού Συμβουλίου ΣΕΗ), Petros Philippidis and Pavlos Haikalis were excluded from the acting guild.
As we wrote previously, Petros Philippidis was accused of sexual harassment and threats against Anna-Maria Papacharalambous, Penelope Anastassopoulou and Lena Drosaki. The Association of Greek Actors filed a complaint against the famous comedian in the context of the investigation of the Greek #me_too (harassment, sexual harassment in the workplace).
The first applicant told the prosecutor that she had been raped by an actor in 2008 in a theater when she came there to apply for a job.
The second woman said that she was sexually assaulted by a famous actor in 2010, in his dressing room. According to her, they met in the theater to discuss professional issues, and he, dragging her into the dressing room, made an attempt to rape her. However, the woman resisted desperately (it came to a fight), and she managed to avoid the worst.
The third victim claims that in 2014, after a business meeting, the actor kindly offered to drive her home in his car. The girl agreed. However, the man took her to a secluded place and tried to rape her.
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