New, particularly crucial digital evidence regarding the final hours before Giorgos Mazonakis’s death has emerged from the forensic analysis conducted by the Criminal Investigation Division on Ioanna Gaka’s cell phone.
Forensic experts managed to recover from the device two deleted photos and one deleted video, which had been created at noon on September 9, within a span of a few minutes, while—according to the rest of the evidence in the investigation—the singer was at the doctor’s office on Karneadou Street. In fact, one of the images had been shared—that is, sent from Ms. Gaka’s cell phone to another number.
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The even more significant detail is that all three files were deleted almost simultaneously, shortly after 7:09 p.m. on the same day. It was during those hours that the two doctors, Ioanna Gaka and Ilias Theodoropoulos, were being sought by the Hellenic Police, with the two ultimately going at 7:45 p.m. to give a statement at the Kypseli Police Station regarding the case.
The two photos and the one video
The forensic analysis accurately records the times the files were created, captured, and deleted.
One photograph was taken at 2:43:36 p.m. on September 9. The file appears to have been created at 2:44:19 p.m. and subsequently deleted at 7:09:09 p.m.
Of particular significance is the fact that this specific image also contains geolocation data. According to the DEE’s investigation, the coordinates found in its metadata correspond to a location on Karneadou Street in Athens that matches the location of their medical office. It is precisely for this photograph that the experts identified the digital traces of sharing.
The second photograph was taken at 14:45:22 and saved as a file four seconds later, at 14:45:26. This one was also found to have been deleted. It should be noted that, according to the available evidence, that was the exact moment when Mazonakis began deleting the photos. The time of deletion was 19:09:13, that is, just four seconds after the first image was deleted. The second photo also had the same coordinates, which point to Karneadou Street.
In one of the two photos, according to reports, Giorgos Mazonakis appears lying on a hospital bed while the machine is running. He is wearing a yellow short-sleeved T-shirt, is covered from the waist down with a blanket, and has his head turned to the right, with his eyes closed. An IV catheter is visible on his right hand, and a similar connection appears to be present on his left as well.
A deleted video file was also found on the same device. The metadata indicates that the video was created at 14:43:55, i.e., between the times the two photos were taken. The file was also found to have been deleted, and according to the forensic analysis, the deletion took place at 19:09:13.
Thus, the timeline of the digital files is as follows:
2:43:36 p.m.: first photo
taken 2:43:55 p.m.: video
created 14:45:22: second photo
taken 19:09:09: first photo
deleted 19:09:13: deletion of the second photo and the video
It should be noted, however, that to obtain more information regarding where one of the photos was sent, a court order to lift telephone privacy restrictions would be required.
All three files were found in the DCIM storage folder on Ioanna Gaka’s cell phone—that is, in the default location where audiovisual material is typically stored on Apple devices.
The experts note, however, that this specific folder may also contain files that were transferred via AirDrop or synced through iCloud Photos. For the two photos, however, there is specific metadata regarding the time they were taken and their geographic location on Karneadou Street.
The photos were taken with Giorgos Mazonakis at the doctor’s office
According to information published earlier by protothema.gr, the blood-drawing procedure began at 2:37 p.m. Based on this information, it appears the photos were taken shortly after the singer arrived at the clinic and had just begun the plasmapheresis procedure.
At 3:22 p.m., the first alert was recorded, and, as indicated by the data under review, the treatment appears to have stopped at that point. Other alerts from the machine followed: one at 3:23 p.m. and then two more at 3:45 p.m. The call to the emergency medical services, however, was logged at 4:11 p.m.
Based on this evidence, the central question of the investigation now shifts to what exactly happened inside the clinic from 3:22 p.m., when the first alarm signal appeared, until 4:11 p.m., when emergency medical services were finally called.
The Critical Time Frame
The sequence of events based on the data available so far is as follows:
2:37 p.m.: The hemodialysis procedure begins.
3:22 p.m.: The machine records the first alert. At this specific point in time, it appears that the treatment was interrupted.
15:23: A new alert is recorded.
15:45: At
16:11: The call to the emergency medical services (EKAV) is made.
This means that 49 minutes elapsed between the first alert and the call to EKAV.
This interval is now considered one of the most critical points in the case, as the authorities are called upon to determine what the machine’s specific warnings meant, what the singer’s condition was at that time, what actions were taken by those present, and why help was not sought sooner.
According to the information currently under review, the call for emergency medical assistance should have been made as soon as the first alert appeared at 3:22 p.m. This very point is expected to be a critical focus of the preliminary investigation.
The taxi driver’s testimony: On Karneadou Street before 2:00 p.m.
Also important for reconstructing the events of the day is the testimony of the taxi driver who transported Giorgos Mazonakis from his home in Voula to Karneadou Street. The driver testified that the singer had contacted him in the early hours of September 9 and had asked to be picked up at 12:00 p.m., as he wanted to be in Kolonaki by 1:00 p.m.
He arrived outside Mazonakis’s home at 11:55 a.m. The singer took a while to get ready and finally came out between approximately 1:15 and 1:20 p.m.
The driver noticed that he had a cut on his forehead and was holding a paper towel over the spot. He suggested they stop by a pharmacy, which Mazonakis agreed to. They stopped at a pharmacy on Vouliagmenis Avenue in Glyfada, where a band-aid was applied to the cut, and then they set off without making any further stops for Kolonaki.
Mazonakis asked him to take him specifically to 11 Karneadou Street, without explaining exactly what he was going to do there. According to the testimony, the taxi arrived at Karneadou Street between 1:50 p.m. and 1:59 p.m.
The singer got out of the rear right door and walked toward the apartment building, while the driver drove off to wait nearby. He had told the driver he would be gone for about two hours.
The two men had already agreed that the taxi would wait for him, and once the meeting in Kolonaki was over, they would then go to Kifissia, where Mazonakis estimated he would stay for about two hours. The driver parked and waited.
When about two and a half hours had passed without any word from the singer, he called his colleague to take over his shift. The shift change took place around 5:15 p.m., and by that time, Giorgos Mazonakis had not called either of them to let them know he was done.
At around 5:30 p.m., while the driver was heading home, a friend called to tell him that the singer had died.
“He didn’t look like a sick man”
Of particular interest is the description the driver gave of Mazonakis during the ride. As he testified, he had known him for about 24 years and had driven him on several occasions, albeit only occasionally.
On that day, he said, he did not notice any unusual or concerning behavior. According to the witness, Mazonakis appeared the same as on previous occasions when he had driven him.
The driver even mentioned that when he later learned from the news that the singer had gone to Kolonaki to undergo a major medical procedure, he was shocked, since, in his own view, the singer “did not look like a sick person” that day.
Source: Proto Thema
