This article was sent to me that was published in a Venezuelan newspaper “The National” and translated to English. Quite interesting. Explains the Troconis family interpretation of this horrific tragedy that their daughter participated in and was convicted.
They violate their rights and unjustly sentence a Venezuelan woman to prison in the United States
This tragic story for the Venezuelan family dates back to 2016, when Michelle Troconis, residing in Miami, met the Greek-American Fotis Dulos at a water ski club.
By
The National-
June 7, 2024
Michelle Troconis, a Venezuelan born in the United States, was brutally sentenced to fourteen and a half years in prison, plus five years of probation, on May 31. This occurred after a tainted jury from her hometown found her guilty in March in connection with the disappearance and death of Jennifer Dulos.
Michelle Troconis, a Venezuelan born in the United States, was brutally sentenced to fourteen and a half years in prison, plus five years of probation, on May 31. This occurred after a tainted jury from her hometown found her guilty in March in connection with the disappearance and death of Jennifer Dulos.
This tragic story for the Venezuelan family dates back to 2016, when Michelle, living in Miami, met the Greek-American Fotis Dulos at a water ski club. Without knowing his background, Fotis introduced himself to both Michelle and her family as a successful builder, semi-professional athlete, family man, father of five children, separated from his wife and in the process of amicable separation. divorce. This character met Michelle even though he was in another relationship and frequently attended the ski club with his nanny and her children, but never with Jennifer.
It was not until May 2019 that misfortune struck several families involved. Jennifer Dulos is declared missing after failing to show up for a medical appointment and failing to respond to several calls from family and friends. Immediately, the police force in the neighborhood of New Caanan, Connecticut, latches onto American statistics and suspects her husband Fotis and her partner, Michelle. However, the local media begins the unbridled persecution of morbidity to generate sensational news with high engagement and ratings, calling Michelle the “lover” of Fotis Dulos and his wife Jennifer as “the selfless mother of five children.” .
As the days, weeks and months proceeded, and the investigation that cost millions of dollars to the State, the police, through arrest warrants with fabricated and distorted information, and the signature of judges and prosecutors with dubious reputations and scandals of corruption, achieves the arrest of Michelle and Fotis. In four and a half years, Michelle underwent more than nine months of house arrest, she was stripped along with her daughter of the property where she resided with Dulos, forced to remain in Connecticut away from her support system. . Shortly after, Fotis Dulos commits suicide so as not to face the responsibility of the charges and leaves Michelle “carrying the dead” and 5 orphaned children.
Michelle spent more than 3 and a half years (1,404 days) with a GPS-cricket on her leg that required two to three hours of electrical charging per day. But the most serious thing was the forced separation from her only daughter, a youth Olympic athlete.
The American judicial system failed both Michelle and the Connecticut community, since the process was flawed from the beginning and based on pre-fabricated stories to fit Michelle as a “scapegoat” in a narrative that would make the family feel better. of the victim and justify to taxpayers the millions spent and the large number of police officers, detectives,
FBI agents , experts, etc., that were used.
However, to this day Jennifer Dulos' body has not been found, nor has the weapon that was supposedly used to cause her harm, nor is it really known who and how her death occurred. Pure speculation.
But what is known is that a suspected Dulos employee, who was in New Caanan on the day of Jennifer's disappearance, was given legal immunity a few days before Troconis' trial and was rewarded with American citizenship. , for testifying and lying under oath to incriminate Michelle as a conspirator in “a crime” that she did not commit.
The judicial and legal process had enormous flaws, including:
She was subjected, along with an inept first private lawyer, to numerous interrogations with the police without the presence of a translator into Michelle's mother tongue who at the same time acted as another interrogator.
Other suspects were left out of the rigged trial, such as the employee, Fotis' friend and civil attorney, Kent Mawhinney, who coerced Michelle to answer a call to Fotis' phone on the morning of Jennifer's disappearance, and who supposedly will go to trial. in January. Kent has been accused by his wife of sexual harassment and attempted strangulation.
Michelle did not have the right to a speedy trial, which is in the fifth and sixth amendments of the constitution. Although it was arbitrarily granted in September by the judge, it was not executed as such. Jury selection was in October, followed by a long pause of two months before the start of the trial, exposed to public and media opinion unprecedented in American judicial history.
There was a long trial of 30 business days where more than 50% of the time was dedicated to the trial and conviction of Fotis Dulos (being dead to face his responsibilities).
We repeat, the main suspect turned star witness was given immunity.
There were four and a half years of an OJ Simpson-level media blitz, perpetuating a cruel and abhorrent image of Michelle, far from the reality of her true life story.
Michelle Troconis was as much a victim of Fotis Dulos as Jennifer and her children.
The trial showed a different reality from the Fotis Dulos that Michelle and all of us knew, who was bankrupt, financially dependent on the Farber family and a cunning 'serial adulterer'. Michelle was with the wrong man, in the wrong place, on the wrong days. This is Michelle's greatest regret, who, although innocent, has been unjustly convicted by public opinion of a crime that she did not commit.
During the day of the sentencing, the Farber family, Jennifer's children and friends vented their frustration, hatred and thirst for revenge towards Michelle, once again fabricating Hollywood-style stories, fed and channeled by the two prosecutors, alleging that Michelle wanted “replace Jennifer Dulos.” On the other hand, the Troconis family, close relatives, friends and people close to Michelle from the Connecticut community had for the first time the opportunity to tell for several hours who the real Michelle Troconis is, filling the courthouse with messages of love that They describe a charitable woman, committed to the faith, an exemplary mother, unconditional friend and sister, with an immense heart incapable of harming anyone, least of all another mother, or even of planning a conspiracy like the one that was condemned.
As a family, we call on the Venezuelan community to join our fight to find Michelle's freedom and to stand up to the media that spreads false and sensational information.
