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The family of Fotis Dulos insisted that he was “no killer” — and said that he will be buried in Greece far away from the public outcry — days after he died by suicide, according to a new report.

In an emotional and highly critical statement issued to the Hartford Courant, Dulos’ sister Rena Kyrimi said her brother was a victim of “mass hysteria.”

“Are we bitter? Yes,” she wrote. “We lost a much loved and lovely man to a form of mass hysteria. Fotis was no killer. Now he is dead. The case involving Jennifer’s disappearance has not ended. In some respects it now begins anew.”

She said her brother was innocent in the murder of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos — the same claim the alleged killer made in his suicide note.

“We feel devastated that a man, only 52 years of age, found himself in a dead-end where he saw taking his own life as the only way to be granted peace,” Kyrimi said.

Forensic evidence — including the discovery of Fotis’ DNA and Jennifer’s blood mixed on a sink faucet, as well as surveillance video showing Fotis throwing out garbage bags full of paper towels and other items stained with his estranged wife’s blood in Hartford on the day she vanished — links him to the crime, prosecutors have said.

Yet the family argues that the state “pursued and harassed [Fotis] relentlessly” and that the public was too quick to condemn him as a “monster,” Kyrimi added. As a result, the family doesn’t feel comfortable burying him in Connecticut.

“We had contemplated burying Fotis in Farmington but fear desecration of his grave,” Kyrimi said. “We will remove his remains to Greece and bid farewell to a nation at war with its ideals.”

A memorial for Jennifer DulosAPA memorial for Jennifer DulosAP

Kyrimi also accused the state of focusing solely on her brother during the investigation into Jennifer Dulos’ death.

“We are shocked at how Law Enforcement obsessively focused with speculation and circumstantial evidence on an innocent man and turned their back on finding the real perpetrator of this tragedy, who is now at large, still a threat to public safety,” Kyrimi said. “Words are not enough to describe our thoughts, emotions, and sorrow.”

The family requested prayers for the five children Fotis and Jennifer shared.

“We ask that you pray for his five children and our family,” Kyrimi wrote. “We ask that you pause and reflect on how it is possible that, in today’s United States of America, a man sought justice and peace by hooking up a pipe on his exhaust and walking into his car to meet his death surrounded by pictures of his five children.”

The luxury home builder, 52, was near death when he was found inside his car on Jan. 28, around the same time he was due in court to learn whether his bail would be revoked and he’d be tossed back in jail.

He was declared dead two days later at Jacobi Medical Center in The Bronx, where he’d been rushed for specialized treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Jennifer DulosNew Canaan Police
The scene outside the home of Fotis Dulos after his suicide attemptAP
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In his suicide note, recovered inside his car, he wrote, “I refuse to spend even an hour more in jail for something I had NOTHING to do with.”

He had been charged with murder and kidnapping in connection with the disappearance of Jennifer, who went missing in Connecticut in May 2019. She was 50 years old at the time of her disappearance.

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