Aggression

The Ministry of Education has ordered an administrative inquiry into a latest bullying incident involving a 12-year-old boy at a high school in the Athens suburb of Nea Ionia.

The ministry announced that the inquiry was ordered to determine any responsibility on the part of the school's administration and the teachers who were allegedly present during the incident.

Recent highly publicized episodes of violence among schoolchildren have authorities - government officials, teachers, judges, even the Church - scrambling to deal with the problem and keep it from spreading further.

There is much official talk about more severe penalties and sending parents of violent students to prison.

Three minors, aged 13 and 14, were arrested on the island of Zakynthos, western Greece, for bullying and stealing from a 14-year-old classmate over several months.

The suspects, including two brothers, repeatedly assaulted the boy and stole 300 euros in total. The abuse was exposed when they attacked him in public on Solomos Square, slapping and insulting him.

A 47-year-old man was found guilty of intimate threats against his ex-girlfriend, whom he was stalking in violation of restrictive measures imposed on him.

A TikTok video has become a key focus for police investigating the death of 17-year-old Nicoletta, who died after falling from the Aposelemi bridge, Crete, into a 50-metre cliff on May 23. According to information from protothema.gr, the video depicts a classmate of Nicoletta’s bullying her online. Additionally, it is reported that the bullying continued at school.

For more than a year - which is the amount of time that Turkey has abstained from aggressive actions in the air and the Aegean Sea - two things have become apparent: The first is that Turkey does not back down from its long-standing claims, nor does it miss an opportunity to proclaim them. 

Talks on violence, bullying and daily life at school

School bullying and, more broadly, adolescent violence are social problems that cannot be solved by administrative decisions alone. 

However, the state's mobilization is necessary to begin to systematically record and methodically deal with the problem. The measures announced by the government are a good start.

“We are concerned not only about the number of incidents, but also about the intensity of the violence,” said Mitsotakis. Pierakakis added that bullying in schools is a national issue

The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe today released the second volume of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, which focuses on patterns of bullying and peer violence among adolescents across 44 countries and regions.