Criminal procedure

The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday dismissed claims by former judge Altina Xhoxhaj that her rights to a fair trial and to respect for private and family life were violated in 2018 when she was fired from the Albanian Constitutional Court after an investigation showed she owned properties whose cost could not be justified by her income.

Accusations of rape were levelled at a prominent Greek actor and director on Monday, becoming the latest in a string of recent allegations of sexual misconduct in the acting and sporting worlds.

More precisely, he has been charged with disclosing secret information to a U.S. intelligence officer.
In addition to Perisic, Miodrag Sekulic and Vladan Vlajkovic were also sentenced to one and a half year in prison each.
This is the first instance verdict in this case, after more than 18 years since the initiation of the procedure, back in 2002.

Veteran Olympic champion Sophia Bekatorou gave evidence for a new case of sexual abuse involving another female athlete during her three-hour deposition before a prosecutor on Wednesday, according to sources.

After the hearing, the prosecution proposed to the court to order his detention so that he would not exert influence on witnesses and injured parties, so that he would not repeat the crime due to public harassment.

A prosecutor in Athens charged two teenagers with grievous bodily harm for the violent beating of a metro station manager in central Athens on Wednesday, when he asked them to wear a mask in the train.

They were also charged with disobedience, a misdemeanour, after they refused to give fingerprints.

A third request to upgrade the charges faced by fire brigade and civil protection officials to felonies over their management of the deadly fire in Mati in summer 2018 was submitted on Friday to the Athens Prosecutor's Office by the case's chief investigator, Athanasios Marneris.

The MPs of the ruling party GERB announced a new legislative initiative offering the creation of a new figure in the judicial system - a prosecutor investigating the Prosecutor General, reports  BGNES.

Thousands of mourners filed past George Floyd's coffin on June 8 ahead of the African-American's funeral in his native Houston as a court set bail at $1 million for the white officer charged with his murder in a case that has sparked once-in-a-generation protests against police brutality.    

A 38-year-old man charged with the murder of his 40-year-old girlfriend in December 2018 admitted to cutting up her body and incinerating it in a gas oven at their home in testimony to an investigating magistrate in Thessaloniki.