Prominent Greek actor-director found guilty of 2 rapes

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Published July 13, 2022 5:39 AM

By DEMETRIS NELLAS
Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A prominent Greek stage actor and director has been convicted of raping two men when they were minors. The 57-year-old Dimitris Lignadis was found guilty by an Athens court Wednesday in two out of four cases of rape. He was acquitted for insufficient evidence in a third case while the fourth accuser never appeared in court to testify despite a court decision ordering him to. The two rapes Lignadis was convicted of occurred in 2010 and 2015.

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