Vangelis

Coroner confirms dairy student killed himself

A coroner has confirmed that 20-year-old dairy school student Vangelis Giakoumakis, whose body was found in a field in the northwestern city of Ioannina, killed himself.

The coroner?s report said that no other DNA was found on or near Giakoumakis?s body. The Cretan student, who had drunk a small amount of alcohol before his death, slit his right wrist.

Video showing physical violence against bullying victim delivered to authorities

According to information, the video that was delivered to the Greek police on Friday by private investigator Giorgos Tsoukalis shows physical violence against bullying victim Vangelis Yakoumakis, the 20-year-old student who was found dead a few days ago.

Vangelis' pained mother, outraged society? seeking justice (videos)

Maria Giakoumaki, the woman who flung herself onto her son's white coffin, is a tragic figure in the disappearance and consequent news of Vangelis Giakoumakis' suicide. She told Proto Thema of the difficult times she is going through and the pain of finding out about her son's suffering at the Dairy School of Ioannina. In Crete, her hometown, she feels that her son is near her.

Bullying victim had sent letter to Greek parliament over miserable conditions in school

Vangelis Giakoumakis, the soft-spoken young man who was pushed by bullies to take his own life about a month ago, had sent a letter to the Greek parliament, along with several of his college mates, complaining about the miserable conditions at the Dairy School of Ioannina he was attending.

First the funeral, then vindication for bullied Vangelis Giakoumakis (photos)

Maria Giakoumaki, the mother of the bullied student who went missing on February 6, was the tragic figure at the funeral in Selli, Crete, on Tuesday, just 17km from Rethymno. People gathered to pay their last respects to Vangelis Giakoumakis, the boy who stoically and silently dealt with months of degradation by his peers at the Dairy School of Ioannina before committing suicide.

 

"Farewell Vangelis!" Bullied student's dead body goes home (photo)

The Piraeus-Herakleion ferry taking Vangelis Giakoumakis body home was accompanied by friends and relatives shattered by the news of the death of the missing student at 8 p.m. on Monday. Details concerning the last days of his life at the Dairy College of Ioannina where he had been studying were filled with loneliness and incessant bullying that caused the young boy to commit suicide.

Student's death in Ioannina ruled a suicide

A coroner ruled on Monday that the cause of death of missing student Vangelis Giakoumakis was suicide. The coronary report pointed to a single wound on the student?s right wrist carried out with a knife.

Authorities believe that the 20-year-old, who was enrolled at the Dairy School in Ioannina, northern Greece, committed suicide on February 6 the day he was reported missing.

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