A Queens mother, Paraskevi Tsintzelis, 64, suffered multiple fractures and broken bones after her drug-addicted son, George Tsintzelis, 36, violently attacked her in their Astoria apartment. In one terrifying incident, George threatened his mother at knifepoint, forced her out of a window and made her fall three stories.
Despite the brutal attack, Paraskevi remains worried about her son and has tried to help him, even sending him to rehab in the past. Paraskevi recounted the horrifying details from her hospital bed, explaining how George had been waiting for her in the living room when she returned home from checking the mail.
“I said, ‘Go away,’ and he said, ‘No, I want to talk to you,’” she recalled. “He had the knives in his hand. He said, ‘Don’t scream or I’ll stab you.’ I was breaking things…picture frames with my daughter. “He wouldn’t leave.” She described being chased around the room and George hitting her with the back of the knife, she said. the mail.
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The violence escalated when George took her and her home phone to prevent her from calling for help. “I was smoking drugs in the house and blowing them in my face. I was afraid of him. He said, ‘Fuck you, bitch.’ “He had the knife at my neck.” Paraskeví said.
She went on to describe how George forced her to call her daughter, Argyro Tsintzelis, at knifepoint for money. The situation took a chilling turn when George forced Paraskevi onto the windowsill, threatening her life. “He had the knife at my neck,” she recalled.
“I told him I wanted to go to the bathroom and I wanted some water. He said no. I asked him for my asthma pump and he said no. ‘You’ll see what happens. Nobody is going to see it. ‘Who’s going to know what happened?’”
Paraskevi’s last memory before the attack was George pushing her with both hands, causing her to fall and faint. He woke up in the hospital with serious injuries, including a brain hemorrhage and facial and left shoulder fractures of his left arm. He now needs a cane to walk and may need more surgery.
Through it all, Paraskevi admitted that she still cares about her son and continues to show him kindness. “Wherever you put the devil, he is still the devil. “I regret my words,” she said, haunted by trauma and still “seeing” her son everywhere. George Tsintzelis is currently incarcerated at Rikers Island and is due back in a Queens court in March.