Members of a criminal gang comprising almost 160 football hooligans were involved in the fatal injury of police officer Giorgos Lyngeridis during fan riots in Athens in December, the country’s police chief has said.
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A new police directorate, specifically tasked to fight organized crime, will be created, probably before the end of the year, officials say.
Lawyers for the family of Kyriaki Griva, who was murdered outside Agioi Anargyroi police station while seeking help from a violent ex-partner, have called for the police officers who dealt with Griva on that day to be investigated for potential negligence and manslaughter.
Divisions have emerged within the Hellenic Police (ELAS) after the relocation in recent weeks to Attica and Thessaloniki of hundreds of officers, who are being paid an additional allowance of 4,200 euros per month, in an attempt to boost visible policing in the country’s two largest urban centers.
Scratches, slaps and bruises on arms and legs do not legally fall into the category of domestic abuse unless they are the result of ongoing behavior, according to the police’s current manual on domestic violence.
There is only one truth – and it’s harsh: Greek society (and much more so the police) does not care about us. That’s why hundreds of police officers can be found at the drop of a hat to beat up protesters and soccer fans and, of course, to guard the mighty. But when a woman […]
Greece’s minister in charge of police announced plans Monday to set up a nationwide network of domestic violence shelters, days after the fatal stabbing of a woman outside a police station.
Far-right pundits persistently raise the question: What would have ensued if the police officer stationed at the Agioi Anargyroi police station had intervened with his firearm to halt the man who murdered his ex-partner?
“I had hoped Georgia would be the last,” says Maria Poutou. Her 43-year-old sister called their mother asking for help one night last December, after a beating from her 71-year-old partner that left her with a fractured leg.
Sometimes I wish that I lived in a country somewhere between my native Greece and the USA where I live. By between I don’t mean geographically but rather a country whose laws, social mores etc were somewhere between the two.
The father of the woman who was stabbed to death by an ex-partner outside a police station in northern Athens earlier this week has said that when he went to the police station the following morning, he was not allowed to speak to the officer on duty.
The funeral of the Kyriaki Griva, 28, who was murdered by her former partner outside Agioi Anargyroi police station in northern Athens on Monday night was held on Thursday in a climate of deep anguish and anger in the Church of Agios Nektarios in Ano Liosia.
The Cypriot Council of Ministers approved the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between the Cyprus Police and the FBI.
A 39-year-old man arrested for the murder of his ex-girlfriend outside a police station in Athens has been remanded to a prison psychiatric ward pending trial after testifying before an investigative magistrate.
The Greek police conducted an operation against six criminal gangs in the Attica region on Monday, arresting 50 suspected members, while identifying 187 others.
The commander of the Agioi Anargyroi Police Department in northern Athens that received a complaint by a woman who was being threatened by her former partner and subsequently murdered on Monday night, and the 100 emergency dispatch operator whom she called asking for a police escort to her home were both suspended on Wednesday.
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