February 15, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
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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February 9, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
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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October 20, 2022
Social, Society
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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October 3, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
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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October 2, 2022
Social, Society
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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September 2, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
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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September 2, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
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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July 14, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
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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July 13, 2022
Lifestyle, Society
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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December 16, 2021
Society, Very Mix
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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August 30, 2021
Sports
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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June 21, 2021
FEATURED, Social
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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May 12, 2021
Social, Society
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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September 7, 2020
FEATURED, Very Mix
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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May 15, 2020
Society, Very Mix
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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June 6, 2019
Greece
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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March 26, 2019
Greece
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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