2024-06-23 14:45:20
The Minister of Justice Giorgos Floridis introduced critical adjustments within the laws for the safety of victims of home violence in addition to strict punishment of the perpetrators within the state’s effort to cope with the phenomenon of abuse and violence that has taken on massive proportions.
The brand new measures, a complete of 13 provisions, have been introduced by the Minister of Justice and can quickly be submitted to Parliament for a vote.
The measures have been the product of legislative work wherein supreme judges additionally took half.
Particularly with the brand new measures:
Pre-trial detention for felony home violence incidents is the norm and solely in distinctive instances can restrictive situations equivalent to bracelets and home arrest be imposed.
The sentences for perpetrators of home violence crimes are prolonged, with no parole granted and no commutation of their sentence in any approach.
They’re delivered to trial quickly after the interrogation with out the intervention of a judicial council.
Pretrial detention of as much as six months is supplied for perpetrators of home violence even when they face misdemeanor fees.
For spontaneous crimes of home violence, detention is prolonged as much as 5 days.
Victims are protected by the availability that their presence in court docket is just not necessary, it’s adequate to learn their assertion to the authorities and report them, except the court docket deems that their presence is critical.
Provision can also be made for the imposition of restrictive situations earlier than felony proceedings are introduced to guard victims. If these situations (for instance to not strategy the sufferer, to not harass him, threaten him, and many others.) are violated, then a jail sentence is supplied for the motion and informing the police.
Every repeat offender is established as an aggravated home violence case resulting in the utmost penalty.
It isn’t allowed to use a felony mediation process to the notably critical misdemeanors of home violence, even when the sufferer needs the felony process to not proceed. In any case, it’s potential for the prosecutor to not settle for the events’ settlement for mediation or to revoke it, when there may be proof that would cut back the sufferer’s skill to make a aware alternative.
In instances of home violence, the Prosecutor ex officio investigates whether or not the custody standing of the kids also needs to be modified.
The operation of a platform for reporting home violence crimes, even by third events, can also be foreseen.
In addition to the creation of a file/historical past of home violence experiences by the police authorities, which is hooked up as an accompanying doc to the case file.
Lastly, it needs to be famous {that a} week in the past the brand new European Union Directive on combating violence in opposition to ladies got here into pressure, whereas the lately modified Greek laws has included many protecting provisions for the victims of such anti-social and felony behaviour.
The Minister of Justice clarified that the adjustments don’t concern momentary phenomena and are a part of the federal government’s everlasting legislative manufacturing to cope with phenomena of violence and home violence.