Police officers disciplined over femicide case

Three police officers have been disciplined following the April 2024 femicide of Kyriaki Griva outside Agioi Anargyroi in northern Athens, police said in a statement released Thursday.

Griva, 28, was stabbed to death by her ex-partner shortly after leaving the police precinct in Agioi Anargyroi, where she had gone to report him for stalking and to request a police escort home.

The officers were initially given suspensions and fines by a primary disciplinary tribunal, but a secondary tribunal imposed extended suspensions with dismissal. The statement stressed that disciplinary procedures are independent of criminal investigations.

"Mechanisms were immediately activated to investigate responsibilities at both disciplinary and criminal levels," the police said. The Athens Prosecutor's Office is reviewing the case, after an internal affairs investigation submitted...