Violence against men

Conditions and procedures at police stations for filing charges concerning domestic violence are inadequate, leaving women feeling unprotected during the process, a social psychologist specializing in supporting victims has protested.  

Holding small dogs in their arms or dressed in minimal clothing with bare feet, shivering from the cold, victims of trafficking and exploitation networks beg on the main streets of Greece’s major cities. These individuals mainly come from Romania and Bulgaria.

This is the second incident of domestic violence involving a police officer serving in the Greek Parliament, following the arrest of another officer last November, who was accused of raping his children and wife. 

Actor Luke Ford was sentenced to 16 years in jail for sexual assault and rape in Scotland for posing as a Brad Pitt stand-in.

The 35-year-old actor terrorized his victims over 12 years from 2008 to 2020 and faced charges of abusing a total of nine women.

The two brothers who confessed to suffocating their father with a pillow in their own home in Kymi, Evia, with the complicity of the victim’s daughter’s husband, are expected to apologize on Friday.

Nobody knows what happens behind the closed doors of an apartment except the residents. On Friday, in fact, in one of the daily incidents of domestic violence, "the woman [the victim] denied that anything had happened to her while the alleged perpetrator confronted the police officers, telling them that they had no authority over what was happening in his house."

Greece has dismantled a criminal group that trafficked Colombian women to Greece and forced them to perform sex work at apartments and strip clubs, police said.

Police this week arrested the alleged leader and eight members of the sex trafficking ring which has been operating since at least 2019, police said in a statement.

A police officer formerly stationed at Greece's Parliament is embroiled in disturbing allegations, including sexual abuse and rape, as well as a financial investigation into possible illicit activities.

A disciplinary review was ordered for the Hellenic Police psychiatrists and psychologists in charge of examining the 45-year-old policeman and his 35-year-old wife who failed to get to the bottom of the psychological problems the couple were experiencing and continued to serve one of them in the Parliament while his wife was in the GADA.

A 45-year-old police officer has been remanded in charges of rape, sexual abuse of minors and domestic violence, stemming from allegations by his wife and involving four of their five children, aged 9 to 14.

The wife, also a police officer, claims years of abuse, while the officer denies the accusations, attributing them to her alleged mental health issues.