Skinning, dismembering, and boiling

An incredibly cruel murder took place in Athens in 2015. On April 21, 2015, 25-year-old Dimitria Borisova reported her 4-year-old daughter Ani missing to the police. Dimitria had left her daughter with a friend named Sylvia because she had to travel to Germany on business. After her return, Sylvia, whom she had met regularly at the playground but otherwise did not know well, explained that Ani had suddenly disappeared in the park, which was located in the center of Athens. The story sounded very far-fetched. But the police initially believed Dimitria and launched a nationwide search to find 4-year-old Ani with her brown eyes and brown hair. But just two weeks later, Ani’s parents were arrested by the police on suspicion of having killed their own daughter. Dimitria was married to 27-year-old Stanislav Bakardjiev, whom everyone called Stavvos. Born in Bulgaria, he was a heavy drug addict, and Dimitria financed his lifestyle through prostitution. Dimitria had been having an affair for some time with a jewelry dealer from Berlin, who ran eight stores there. The jewelry dealer was infatuated with Dimitria, whom he repeatedly brought to Germany. Dimitria had last traveled to Germany to organize her permanent emigration there. Just a few weeks ago, she had brought Ani to live with her, who had mostly been living with her grandparents in Bulgaria. Stavvos was considered extremely violent and, according to neighbors, physically abused both Dimitria and Ani. Dimitria wanted to put an end to her disastrous relationship with Stavvos once and for all. But he saw red and killed his own daughter. Everything came to light through the testimony of an acquaintance named Nikolai, who had traveled from Athens to Bulgaria. There, he told the Bulgarian police that Stavvos had confessed to him while high on drugs that he had murdered his daughter. The Bulgarian police reported this to their colleagues in Athens, who then grilled Stavvos. During the interrogation, he made an incredible confession. He had killed his own daughter Ani while Dimitria was in Germany. To cover his tracks, he had meticulously cleaned the basement apartment in the Agios Panteleimonas neighborhood. He had cleaned the apartment with chlorine to remove all bloodstains. What happened next could have come straight out of a Hollywood horror movie. After murdering his own daughter, Stavvos skinned her, dismembered her, and then cooked her. He mixed the meat with rice and potatoes. He then divided it into portions and placed the packages in front of the garbage cans in the center of Athens, where homeless people were looking for food. Stavvos had slaughtered his daughter like cattle and fed her to homeless people. His friend Nazif Ahmedov helped him do this. As drugs were found during a search of the house, both parents were arrested in May for violating the Narcotics Act. During the trial at the Athens court, Stavvos vehemently denied killing Ani. He confessed to dismembering her, but claimed that Nazif Ahmedov was solely responsible for the murder. The court saw things differently. Both men were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Ani. Dimitria was given a six-month suspended sentence for exposing Ani to danger. Ani’s murder left deep scars in Greek society that have not healed to this day. The whole country took an interest in Ani’s fate at the time, and Stavvos and his accomplice Ahmedov have rightly become personae non gratae.