Greece squeezes laws on domestic violence (but not sufficient, critics say)

Greece tightened his sentences to address penalties for domestic violence on Friday an increase in cases reportedCritics said that the new legislation did not entrepreneur and the decisive measures aimed at preventing.

During the fireworks in parliament, opposition lawmakers said the conservative government led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was very concentrated on the penalty. The new law makes the court decisions and allows sentences to suspend only in exceptional cases, and the victims will not be obliged to appear in court.

The bill also tries to adapt the laws of Greece The European Union Directive He has been aimed at reducing domestic violence since 2024. It focuses on prevention of frameworks and requires members of the member countries as other forms of cybertalking and other sexual harassment.

Lawyers, referees and women groups claim that new Greek legislation are just a part of the directive, gather and cooperate and cooperate with the victims better and cooperate between the victims and the officials, non-governmental organizations and other specialists.

While defending the bill in parliament, Ioannis Bougas, Deputy Justice Minister Ioannis Bougas, said “Domestic violence has deepened the protection of victims,” ​​he said. The bill eventually reflects the majority of government, mainly in the Greek parliament on Friday, 157 votes.

In the center of the diotima, athens-centered non-profit, which supported the victims of domestic violence, said the bill was “missed opportunity”. There was center criticized the legislation Since the “single and long-term and long-term policies” of the European Directive do not reflect.

“Without no justification, provisions are aimed at improving protection for sensitive groups, including lesbians, old people, migrants and poor.

Official figures recently showed an important rise in reports on domestic violence in Greece. There was 22,080 incidents last year – a year ago due to the police a year ago. The arrests also increased about twice in the same period, reaching 13,503.

This increase or not to be aware of the main problem or be aware of the larger way. Police did not keep specific statistics on domestic violence by 2020 – the relations have recently changed recently and how difficult the long-term comparisons.

“The complex is a phenomenon, the reasons will conduct research for years,” he said. Vouyoukas asked for no data.

In 2021, Memorized Mitsotakis and President Katerina Safelaropoulou, when supported for Sofia Bekator, Olympic Sailing Champion Blamed the best sports officer of sexual abuse. This episode called on the woman to inform the wave of sex and domestic violence.

The Greek Association of Judges and Prosecutors called the new law “dangerous” and said that this would “be an excuse for the new contraction of individual rights.” On Monday, in a reference, the unity took the issue on the issue of a number of provisions, including the bidders of the defendants could be sentenced to the bidders.

Lawyers violate the constitutional protection because they say the parts of the legislation and on Thursday and Friday and the legislative parts and a fair trial and a fair trial.

Clio PapaPadoleon, a lawyer representing the victims of domestic violence, said that the emphasis of the arrest could be shortened and “catastrophic” results.

“The automatic detention of the accused will complicate victims,” ​​he said. “If you have to think about the psychology of these people: if someone has three children who are partners, if he knows that he will immediately go to prison, he considered it twice.”

Michalis Chrysochoidis, a public figure, last month’s domestic violence was a national priority. Last year, a 28-year-old woman was deadly stabbed outside Athens by his previous girlfriend, and the Ministry of Domestic Violence initiative to open dozens of state shelters for domestic violence.

Although the change continues in the right direction, the majority of the government, in response to individual tragedies, said Ms. Papapadoleon, the new law should take a more unified approach.

“It’s too late, even if after the murder or after the aggression,” he said.