A journalist at state broadcaster ERT has been arrested for brutally beating his partner, also a journalist in the same facility.
The victim sustained facial fractures and reported the perpetrator to police after she visited the hospital.
According to media information, the beating took place on Sunday night. The next day the woman visited the KAT hospital specialized in orthopedics as she realized that her injuries were serious.
The doctors who treated her found, among others, facial fractures caused by the violence of the blows.
On Tuesday, the woman came to Omonia Police Department in downtown Athens, where a special department of the service for incidents of domestic violence operates. she handed over to police the doctors’ report and filed a lawsuit against her partner.
Police officers arrested the 45-year-old man who is expected to be taken to the prosecutor today, Wednesday.
Citing co-workers, media reported of another incident between the two partners at work, when the man verbally attacked the woman.
According to latest information, the man was sending threatening sms to the victim while she was in hospital.
Also his former wife has claimed that he was violent to her.
As soon as the perpetrators’ arrest became known, ERT announced that it was suspending the journalist’s contract, awaiting the final decision of the judiciary on the incident.
The victim, also a contract journalist at ERT, is expected to be examined by a medical examiner, reported in.gr.
Incidents of domestic violence in Greece appear to be out of control with dozens of victims reporting them to police each and every day.