Police on the island of Rhodes arrested 23-year-old local man who is accused of the rape of a 20-year-old Irish woman in Faliraki on Monday. The 23-year-old was arrested on Wednesday noon by police officers who were handling the case, after the complaint of the young tourist. According to what …
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8 more men arrested in Colonos rape and pimping case of a minor
Greek Police arrested another eight men over the last two days involved in the rape of the 12-year-old girl in Colonos that was pimped by a neighbor. Seven men, 2 Greeks and 5 foreign nationals aged 20 to 52, were arrested on Thursday and were brought to prosecutor on Friday. …
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Austrian man arrested for raping 15-year-old boy
An Austrian man was arrested in eastern Peloponnese, for the rape of a 15-year-old boy, He was teaching the victim German in private lessons. According to local media argolikeseidhseis.gr, the 59-year-old gave private German lessons to the child since a month in the area of Ermionida. In an announcement the …
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Three Greeks, two foreigners arrested for sexual abuse of minor girl
Greek police arrested five more men linked to the sexual abuse and pimping of a 12-year-old girl from the Athens district of Kolonos. The suspects are three Greek men aged 65, 49 and 44 and two foreigners, Pakistani nationals, aged 50 and 23, media report citing police sources. Among the …
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Actor sentenced for two cases of attempted rape; free until appeal in court,
Well-known actor and director Petros Flippidis was sentenced to 8 years in jail on remand over two charges of attempted rape by an Athens Mixed Jury Court on Wednesday. He was unanimously acquitted for serial rape of a single person due to “doubts.” The court rejected mitigating circumstances, and released …
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Police officers charged with raping woman at Athens police station
Two police officers of the DIAS motorcycle squad were charged with raping a 19-year-old woman in Omonia police station in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The two men, aged 24 and 27, were arrested by the police’s internal affairs unit on Friday morning who is leading the investigation. Both …
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Domestic violence: Man abducts ex wife, rapes her and sets her hair on fire
A 28-year-old woman experienced the sheer horror when the ex husband abducted her, beat her and raped her and threatened to set her on fire thus put her hair on fire with a lighter. The new shocking case of domestic violence took place in Corinth, north-eastern Peloponnese, when the 33-year-old …
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Man arrested in Chania for the rape of young tourist; second perpetrator on the run
Police in the city of Chania on the island of Crete arrested on Sunday one young Greek man for the rape of a tourist from Sweden. The 21-year-old victim filed a lawsuit and forensic examination confirmed her complaint. The arrestee is aged 23, while a second perpetrator who allegedly participated …
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Seven women sue Bishop over rape and abortion claims
Seven women are suing Bishop of Dodoni, Chrysostomos over his outrageous rape and abortion claims on Friday morning. The women, some of them verbally or sexually abused, will file a lawsuit against the Bishop under the anti -racist law at the First Instance Court in Thessaloniki. “We will sue you …
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“No woman is raped without consent,” claims Greek Bishop; outrage UPD
Unbelievably obscurantist statements by a Greek high-ranking clergyman, the Bishop of Dodoni Chrysostomos: “No woman is raped without consent” and “abortion should not be performed even in the case of rape.” The inadmissible statements triggered an outrage not only among the Greek society but also among ministers of the conservative government. …
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Myrto: Victim of heinous crime on Paros to receive compensation by Greek state
Τhe Greek state must pay compensation to the victim of a debilitating rape by a man who was in the country illegally in 2012, the Council of State ruled ον Wednesday. The victim, Myrto, as she was known with her first name, was 15 when she was brutally raped and …
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UPDATE Court finds ex National Theater director Dimitris Lignadis guilty in 2 of 4 rape cases
The Mixed Jury Court in Athens found the former director of National Theater, Dimitris Lignadis, guilty for two of four rape cases on Wednesday. The ruling was decided with a majority of votes. The defendant was in trial for the sexual abuse of three minors and one young adult man. …
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Greek Psycho: Middle-aged man arrested for murder and rape of his elderly mother
A 59-year-old man has murdered his 85-year-old mother in their home in a village in Grevena, north-western Greece. He made all preparations for the burial according to the Greek customs before he informed the funeral office. The funeral master got suspicious and informed the police. It turned out that the …
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Soccer player Semedo arrested in Athens over rape allegations; Olympiakos’ reaction
A well-known Portuguese football player at a team of the Greek Super League, was brought before a public prosecutor on Monday on charges of raping a 17-year-old girl. Olympiakos FC defender Ruben Semedo was arrested and brought before a public prosecutor on Monday on charges of raping a 17-year-old girl. …
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Cleaning lady abducted during work, raped and beaten in Athens
A cleaning lady was grabbed by a man while she was working in a residential building, she was raped and beaten for several hours before she managed to escape. She was taken to the hospital with concussion and broken rips, not to mention the sexual and psychological injuries. The 50-year-old …
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#MeToo: Well-known comedian charged with rape and attempted rape
Prosecutor authorities pressed three felony charges against well-known Greek comedian Petros Filippidis on Wednesday. The 57-year-old actor is being accused with one rape and two to attempted cases of rapes. Filippidis denies the charges. The accusations came by three actresses. Investigation against the actor began with the assistance of the …
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Big Brother Greece: Outrage over player’s vulgar rape statement; gov’t intervenes
Furious social media users have been lashing out at a participant of reality show Big Brother who has made a misogynistic and vulgar comment on women and rape. Player Antonis, a 31-year-old macho from Crete, endorsed and encouraged rape on Skai TV Livestreaming: if a woman doesn’t like you, then …
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Eleni Topaloudi: Greek, Albanian defendants found “guilty” for brutal rape and murder
One of the most heinous crimes in Greece: 21-year-old university student Eleni Topaloudi was brutally raped,, tortured and murdered by two young men on the island of Rhodes in November 2018. One and a half years later, justice was served, when a mix jury court in Athens unanimously found both …
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Women pressure enforces legal improvement of Greece’s “Rape Law”
Following an outcry by women’s groups, Amnesty International and even SYRIZA lawmakers about the “rape” definition and its punishment in the new Penal Code,, Justice Minister Mihalis Kalogirou submitted a legislative improvement early Thursday afternoon. “Anyone who attempts a sexual act without the victim’s consent is punished with imprisonment of …
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Amnesty calls on Greece to change rape definition in draft Penal Code
The Greek chapter of Amnesty International called on the Ministry of Justice to amend the definition of rape in its new draft penal code article 336 to base it on the lack of consent rather than on resistance and violence committed. At a press conference on Tuesday, Amnesty International Greece …
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