Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment in the workplace is common in Greece and one in three workers has suffered from it, a new survey has shown.

The first official survey on workplace sexual harassment and violence targeting women in Greece was released Monday by the General Confederation of Employees of Greece (GSEE).

To address the lack of data and state accountability in protecting victims, the study found that 31.4% of 876 participants in Greece experienced workplace sexual harassment, 75.3% of whom were women.

A Greek Olympian has spoken publicly about her verbal sexual harassment in her sport over years.

Skeet shooter Emmanouela Katzouraki, 23, told Argyro Giannoudaki on her SportsPodcast that she first experienced sexual harassment when she was 16 by an official in the sport.

Two teenage boys in Halkidiki, northern Greece, were arrested on Thursday after an 11-year-old boy accused them of sexually harassment and of recording their actions with a mobile phone.

The teens are facing charges of insult, physical harm, threat, violating sexual dignity and pornography of minors.

A prosecutor released the two minors as the investigation continues. 

A 16-year-old accused of domestic violence and sexual harassment by her 42-year-old mother appeared before a prosecutor, on Monday, in Corfu island, who ordered her release

The police arrested the 16-year-old on Sunday, after her mother reported her for violence and sexual harassment. Allegedly, the 16-year-old had attacked her mother and her 12-year-old sister. 

A 25-year-old man was arrested in the city of Larisa, central Greece, on Friday after he was spotted walking naked in the town center, local media reported.

Police was alerted by passers by who saw the man roaming around Agios Vissarionas square. When officers approached him and inquired about his motives he reportedly claimed to be Jesus Christ, a local news website said. 

A 62-year-old archeological site guard from the island of Nisiros was remanded pending trial following complaints of harassment against minors, as decided on Thursday with concurrence from the prosecutor and examining magistrate.

Criminal charges include sexual assault, child seduction, attempted rape, child pornography and drug possession.

An antiquities guard who worked on the southeastern Aegean island of Nisyros was arrested on Saturday morning in the town of Iraklio on Crete following numerous complaints of sexual indecency against minors. 

A 59-year-old man was arrested Sunday for allegedly sexually harassing a 20-year-old woman outside a betting shop in downtown Athens, as reported by state broadcaster ERT. 

Two men, aged 17 and 20, were hospitalized on Wednesday morning after being attacked in the western Athens suburb of Peristeri by about 15 people in black clothes, in what was reported as a sports-related incident. 

The attack occurred shortly before 2 a.m., on Athinogenous Street.