A man had 400 mistresses of which 170 were fiancees – He preferred the Thessalonians
— Miss, I love you. I want you to be my wife.
— Pardon?
— I ask for your hand.
— Well, we just met.
— I have my information. You are a good and honest girl. Say yes and tomorrow I will come to your house, to officially ask you from your folks.
Fofo, Marika, Katina, Eleni, Chryssa, Popi, Kula, Anna, Georgia were puzzled by his haste, but because they had grown up with the fear of being left on the shelf, they hesitated to let the opportunity to she is lost. Besides, the young man seemed moral and honest, since he asked for marriage and did not try to lure her into romantic situations and nothing further.
The next day at the house of Fofos, Marika, Katina, Eleni, Chrysa, Popi, Koula, Anna, Georgia, they were waiting for the prospective groom with smiles, kisses and treats. As soon as he made his appearance, joy turned to excitement. Young, handsome, serious, classy, educated, elegant, kind, he exceeded all expectations.
Dagas, Merleggos, Vasaklis, Daskalis, Economakos, Saklis, Fakis, Fokas presented himself as a law student, an employee of the Piraeus Port Organization and a reserve lieutenant. After the accounts, he would take his fiancee and go to a photography studio to have their picture taken. Then she settled in her house. Under the pretext that he needed money to take exams and obtain a license to practice his profession, so that he could resign from the PPA and stay permanently in Thessaloniki as a lawyer, he collected an advance payment of the dowry.Then the search for the new fiancee began. When he found her, he would tell a nice lie to the previous one and disappear. During the three years that his activity lasted in Thessaloniki, he ate, drank and slept at the various in-laws' homes, lived off the handouts he made and did not have to work a single day.
In Toumba alone, within two years, he had been engaged thirty-nine times. But this is nothing. In Thessaloniki he was engaged a total of eighty times, in Athens and Piraeus sixty-six, in Sparta eight, in Samos eight, in Volos six and in Serres two. Total engagements numerically and in writing 170, one hundred and seventy. And all this within five years!
He had a preference for Thessaloniki. "Oh, everything," he would say. "Thessaloniki has the most beautiful girls".
There was always the risk of accidentally meeting one of the previous fiancees. Then the most convincing excuse for the case was invoked. Allegedly, he had fallen flat on his face while reading, so he was suddenly recalled to Piraeus...
He was arrested while he was enjoying his coffee at the White Tower cafe. They took him to General Security, still known as Pursuit. Some said that one of the exes had reported him. It is strange that out of a hundred and seventy fiancées, only one was found to denounce him. Still others said that he was burned by a police officer, to whom his niece had been betrothed. He had even given him a suit, which the uncle, immediately after the arrest, hastened to take back.
This is what the newspapers wrote in January 1937, trying to create impressive articles about the suitor by profession, the swindler, the dowry man. A rosary of names was made public, among them the improbable Pitsirikos, which was mainly due to the imagination of journalists and what caught their ear in the corridors of Security. His real name has not been released.
From the search made in his house by Nikos Moushoundis (the well-known Moushoundis, who was then a lieutenant colonel), following the order of the commander of the General Security Tsaousis, they found about two hundred photos of him with various girlfriends, countless love letters and a verse where the names and addresses of one hundred and seventy women were recorded. The index was labeled "Confidential Index."
"I know the woman's heart, because I have studied it," he told reporters. "I didn't mind my girlfriends, like others do. Our relationships stopped at mutual respect, but I made sure to make the girl fall in love with me. The only weapon for this is jealousy. If a girl sees that you are flirting with a friend of hers, she will immediately bite and try to keep you at all costs."
Journalists called him Don Juan, Casanova, Tamerlane, Minotaur, and even Landry. (Landry, a notorious murderer of women, is known to have kept a notebook with the names of his victims and various details). The list may have listed the names of 170 women, but he himself stated that his girlfriends numbered over 400. He described himself as "Number One Public Danger of the Female Sex."
With his statements he electrified the journalists, they again had created a whole novel and the newspapers published exaggerations and inaccuracies.
He never admitted to cheating by marrying. "I've dated, I've had relationships, I've had many girlfriends, I may have made a few promises of betrothal, but to systematically trick them with an engagement is not right," he said.
When informed that the police would call his fiancees to General Security to authenticate his frauds, he said:
“No girl will report me, because I did no wrong. If they let me write a few letters, you will see that about fifty girls will gather here in the Department to see me and cry that I am locked up in the detention center.'
He was right. He didn't have to write letters. The police called the girls mentioned in the report. They were presented accompanied by parents or relatives. They didn't accuse him of anything.
Because three watches had been found in his house, one of them a woman's watch, made of platinum, of great value, the newspapers spoke of theft. No charges were filed against him either for theft or fraud or seduction. The case, to the dismay of journalists, began to deflate.
Everything showed that he was not burdened by any criminal act and that he had only an unusually large circle of female acquaintances. Of course, a man who in five years has had a few hundred love affairs, keeps correspondence, passports and photos, is not very popular, but he is not illegal either.
After that he should have been released, but General Security had an ace up their sleeve and wouldn't let him go without giving him a good bite.
Among the things found in his home was a fake reserve lieutenant diploma. According to what was in force at the time, those dismissed from the ranks of the army with the rank of reserve lieutenant, had the right to enroll in the university. With such a paper in his pocket, his tale of law student-reserve officer-PPA employee was easily believable; but that was also his weak spot.
Cited for forgery of a public document.
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