Giovanni Junior Giustinianni
In just one tumultuous week, Constantinople witnessed unprecedented upheaval. Over two thousand people were arrested, their fates uncertain. Among them, more than three hundred confessed involvement with Menelaos's plot after interrogation, with a staggering eighty percent being former senators or influential figures from previous administrations within them, all subjected to various punishments by the court after a short court hearing. The city's streets became scenes of conflict and chaos, resulting in over forty deaths and hundreds injured during the series of clashes between Apostolos' hounds and the protestors.
Some calls it the purge of the spring, while Apostolos simply refers it as a minor inconvenience for the greater good in the future.