I walked into a room where a naked woman was lying on the floor and was told to kill her with a knife. I couldn't do it.
Newspapers follow the trial closely.
TV channels, which have been banned from the proceedings, daily parade experts to evaluate the remorse shown by the satanists and explain how seemingly normal young people from good families could commit such violent crimes. The youths, appearing in court with heads bowed and silent, are trying to get their sentences reduced by convincing the Athens appeals court they have now turned to God. The three confessed after their arrest in December 1993 that they led a 20-member satanic cult, which had conducted animal and human sacrifices on the outskirts of Athens for three years. She was lured to an abandoned winery, stripped, handcuffed, raped and strangled. Marieti, who said Katsoulas sexually assaulted her during her initiation, was used as bait to trap the girl and waited in a car during the murder.