The wife of a priest who was murdered on Sept. 3, 2012 in Zacharo in the region of Ilia, Greece, was sentenced to life imprisonment on June 26 after being convicted of manslaughter, as was her lover, who also received another four-year sentence for conviction of other charges including the possession and use of weapons and drugs.
The lover, in an apology on June 12, said the wife had nothing to do with the killing and he killed the priest out of jealousy, but the court didn’t accept it.
On the day of the killing, 51-year-old Father Athanasios Avgeropoulos, father of three children, was shot to death as he sat in his car alongside a road in the Peloponnese while his wife got out to urinate, in what police said was a setup to get the victim alone.
The priest’s wife told police that two men riding a motorcycle shot her husband after withdrawing an undisclosed amount of cash from an ATM machine at a rest stop nearby.
Police questioned the cleric’s wife, who witnessed the shooting, and found inconsistencies in her story that led them to suspect she was involved. Further questioning revealed that she was having an affair with the 41-year-old man suspected of being one of the perpetrators.
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