Doctors face court today over singer Mazonakis’s death

World deathGreecemusicTop News Doctors face court today over singer Mazonakis’s death Giatros Kolonaki 1.jpg 1 Relevant News Doctors face court today over singer Mazonakis’s death 11 September 2026 DISY praises President on GSI, AKEL presses for exit details 11 September 2026 Autism patients stuck in psychiatric hospital as communities reject homes 11 September 2026 newsroom 11 September 2026 FacebookXWhatsAppEmailPrintViber Doctors Ioanna Gaka and her husband, Ilias Theodoropoulos, are due in court in Athens today, after officers from the Subdirectorate for the Prosecution and Detection of Crimes arrested the couple on a charge of fatal exposure to danger, following the death of singer Giorgos Mazonakis. An autopsy on Mazonakis’s body is also due to take place today. Investigators consider the results of the toxicology tests particularly important. The inaccuracies and contradictions police identified An investigation, carried out with the assistance of homicide officers from the Athens Security Directorate (ΔΑΟΕ), concluded that there was a series of inaccuracies and contradictions in the case. Police believe an ambulance should have been called immediately and Mazonakis taken to hospital, since Gaka herself said, in a witness statement she gave on September 9, that she realised he was not well. “They should have accompanied him and handed him over to the hospital themselves,” police officers said. What Ioanna Gaka said in her testimony In her September 9 statement, Gaka described herself as a doctor specialising in gynaecology, adding that she had worked in physiatry for 23 years. According to reports, she stated specifically: “I am a doctor specialising in gynaecology. She has specialised in physiatry.” However, the Athens Medical Association (ΙΣΑ) said in a statement that it had granted permits only for a general medicine clinic and a clinic without a specialty, which were co-located at the same premises. The clinic’s equipment and the Medical Association’s statement Gaka reportedly said the equipment at her clinic, which shares premises with her husband’s on the first floor of Karneadou Street in Kolonaki, was state of the art and certified both by the Athens Medical Association and by the German company AYUS. Elsewhere, she is reported to have said she holds all the necessary licences and certifications for the equipment, and that while the procedure is known elsewhere in Europe, she is the only person who practises it in Greece. The ΙΣΑ, however, said in its statement: “During the inspection, our team found, among other things, two plasmapheresis machines, which are prohibited from being installed in a clinic.” Inspections in 2024 and 2025 had not found these machines installed at the premises. What time Mazonakis arrived at the clinic In her witness statement, Gaka said Mazonakis arrived at her clinic at 4pm, rather than 3pm as scheduled, and that she was alone with him in the treatment room, while her secretary, a nurse and her husband were elsewhere on the premises. However, police reviewing security camera footage found that Mazonakis had not arrived at 4pm, but at around 1pm. Her account of preparing for the treatment According to police sources, Gaka went on to describe the steps she took preparing for the plasmapheresis procedure. By her own account, the procedure itself had not yet begun. She said Mazonakis told her he was sleepless and anxious, had the same cough he had the previous day, when he had again visited the clinic on September 8, and worse joint pain than the day before, but had not mentioned any health problem to her. By her account, he then lay down on the bed. She attached cardiogram stickers that also monitor oxygen, temperature and blood pressure, all of which were normal. She then inserted a venous catheter in his right arm and attempted several times to find a vein in his left arm. It was at that point, she said, that she noticed his oxygen levels dropping. She stopped the procedure and called her husband. He began chest compressions while she administered two doses of diluted adrenaline through the catheter in his right arm, five millilitres in total by her recollection. She then asked her secretary to call the national ambulance service, EKAB. What the machine’s software showed: the defibrillator and EKAB’s arrival In another apparent contradiction, crime investigation officers checked the treatment machine’s own software log and found it had been running for 40 to 45 minutes, suggesting Mazonakis had already been undergoing treatment for some time rather than having just lain down. Gaka is also reported to have testified that a defibrillator was used. According to her account, her husband used the defibrillator without success. Within minutes, an EKAB paramedic arrived by motorcycle and inserted a breathing tube. Compressions, adrenaline and defibrillator use continued until ambulance paramedics arrived; Mazonakis was still alive when he was taken from the clinic to Elpis Hospital, which was on duty that day. Mazonakis’s previous visit The day before, on September 8, Mazonakis had visited the clinic again after a phone call with Gaka. She said he had also visited her clinic in 2021 for hydrotherapy, but that she had not seen him since. She described him as looking like an exhausted man, adding that he had professional commitments he did not feel ready for. The treatment she proposed These commitments appeared to be why he had sought her help. According to her account, he had an important event marking 33 years of his career, which she believed was scheduled for around the 20th of the month, and had asked her advice on what he could do to meet his obligations. She said she carried out an electrophysiological check using the machines at her clinic. She said she had already sensed he was not well. When he asked what could be done quickly, she told him about treatment with the “INUS PHERESIS” machine, a blood-cleansing procedure she described as having no side effects or contraindications. 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