In order to implement Digeni’s order for a general uprising of the civilian population, the local organization EOKA Avgorou placed on Friday, July 4, 1958, slogans in the center of the village. English soldiers came and took them down. The next day new slogans were posted and the women, following instructions from the Organization, prepared to stone the soldiers.

The soldiers returned the next day, July 5, 1958, arrested Kyriakos Makris, a fifteen-year-old boy, and pushed him up a ladder to take down the signs. At his refusal, the women rushed, snatched him from the hands of the English and fled. Then they rang the bells as a signal, the villagers gathered and started stoning the soldiers. Loukia, who was one of the initiators of this attack, at the moment when the soldiers arrived, was bathing her little daughter Theodora, while the bell was ringing. She left the child in the bath, in the care of her husband’s sister, and hurried to join the other women.