FILE PHOTO: Greek actor and former director of Greece's National Theatre Dimitris Lignadis is escorted by plain clothes police officers as he arrives at a prosecutor's office in Athens, Greece, February 25, 2021. Stelios Stefanou/Intimenews via REUTERS/File Photo
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek prosecutors ordered on Friday that a former director of the National Theatre be remanded after hearing his plea over child rape allegations, his lawyer said.
Dimitris Lignadis resigned as head of the National Theatre this month and turned himself on Saturday after an arrest warrant was issued following lawsuits filed against him by two men who say he raped them when they were minors.
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