Eleni was born in 1956 in Bielawa. Her parents fled civil war-torn Greece in the 1950s and settled in Poland. Already at school, Eleni sang in bands, she also attended a music school. In 1975, she began performing with the band Prometheus, in the 1980s she began her solo career. It was then that she gained immense popularity. In 1976, she married Fotis Tzokas. They met through the band. Photis’s brother was the founder of Prometheus. As she admitted in interviews, it was love at first sight. Soon after their wedding, their only daughter, Aphrodite, was born. Happiness in family and professional life was destroyed by a huge tragedy.
Eleni, Fotis and little Aphrodite Source: screen of ‘Undefeated’ program, vod.tvp.p
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They met when she was 13. Nothing heralded tragedy
When Aphrodite was 13, she met Peter. The boy was four years older than her. They fell in love with each other and quickly became a couple. “I knew Peter very well. He came to our house, he was with us very often. Aphrodite was with him too. I knew his mother – Eleni recalled in an interview with Krzysztof Ziemiec for the TVP program. They made a happy couple, and at first nothing aroused their parents’ suspicions. However, when Aphrodite got into art high school, problems began to arise in the relationship. The man became possessive and morbidly jealous. He constantly controlled Aphrodite, wanted her to break off contact with her friends.
There are terrible situations in which there is an interest in the life of another person, I would even say interfering in it. I don’t mean parents or guardians, because that’s a whole different thing. I am talking about people who loved ones who, instead of accepting us as we are, getting to know and discovering us over time, try to adapt us to themselves by taking control over us.
– Aphrodite in her diary. – It was a possessive love that led to a tragedy – she admitted in an interview with Krzysztof Ziemiec.
Aphrodite Tzoka Source: screen of the program ‘Unbeatable’, vod.tvp.pl
She broke up with him when he became possessive. “She sensed something bad was going to happen”
Aphrodite finally lost her patience. Though she loved Peter, she couldn’t stand his possessiveness. In the fall of 1993, she ended the relationship. She sensed something bad was about to happen. She also told her friends at school, but they said it was nonsense. How can he hurt you? – Elena. On January 20, 1994, like every morning, Aphrodite left home for school. Piotr managed to get a gun and 25 bullets illegally. He got into the car with his new girlfriend and drove to Aphrodite’s school. The teenager felt nothing. She got in, the three of them drove off to Lake Powidzkie. There, 21-year-old Piotr got out of the car together with Aphrodite. They just had to talk.
Some time later, Eleni received a phone call with threats and ransom demands. She notified the police and called Piotr’s mother. At that time, Aphrodite was no longer alive. The 21-year-old first aimed at her temple and then shot directly at her heart. The next day he was arrested by the police. After he confessed, Eleni called his mother again. – I told her: Elizabeth, we have lost children. I thought she had lost her son too – she admitted on TVP. Piotr was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Teenage Aphrodite Tzoka Source: screen of ‘Undefeated’ program, vod.tvp.p
Years later, she forgave the murderer. “Forgiving is not forgetting”
“Our whole world has collapsed. When this happened, as if in one moment we were left with nothing. I know that at that time there were people closest to me, family, friends and priests who helped me a lot. But in fact, a man remains alone with his pain and has to deal with it internally – years later in an interview with the Niedziela.pl portal. Years later, Eleni took a step that many of the victims’ parents thought impossible. She forgave her daughter’s murderer.
Forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting. To forgive is to get rid of the negative emotions that kill us from the inside. It was a tragedy for two families. Our family and Peter’s family. As a mother, I felt the pain of this mother who also wears a huge cross – the artist in an interview with “Woman and Life”. “If I hadn’t forgiven, I wouldn’t be alive,” she added.
Piotr left prison in 2013, 6 years before the end of his sentence.
Source: Gazeta
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