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Authors: Janine Louloudi, Kostas Zafeiropoulos, Nikos Morfonios (MIIR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Data Analysis \u2013 Visualizations:\u00a0 Konstantina Maltepioti\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Illustration: Louiza Karageorgiou<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”1448px” custom_margin=”-40px||25px||false|false” custom_padding=”45px||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”1055px” height=”645px” custom_margin=”-30px||||false|false” custom_padding=”||11px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”768px” custom_margin=”-30px||-158px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u201cMommy, he told me he’s going to cut my throat\u2026”<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n “<\/span>Mommy, Mommy, Mommy I’m dying!<\/span><\/i>“. Salamina, Friday night, December 1, 2023. 74-year-old Evangelia hears her 43-year-old daughter, Georgia Poutou, on the other end of the phone line, pleading for help. She quickly realises that her daughter has once again been beaten up by her partner. From her home she calls the police to send a patrol car, but her plea falls on deaf ears.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, she herself rushes to her daughter’s house. When she arrives, she sees Georgia lying outside in the garden of the house, bleeding. The woman cannot walk, her ankle is broken and her knees are badly knocked out. The perpetrator is nowhere to be found. The battered woman, along with her mother and her 15-year-old son – a disabled child – set off for the island’s police station.<\/span><\/p>\n The policemen there won’t take a statement: \u2018<\/span>Go to the health centre, bring the doctors’ report and then come back to press charges<\/span><\/i>\u2019, they say. No mobilization takes place to arrest the violent offender, no concern for the victim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The next day the physically abused woman herself insists on going to the police, even though her mother discourages her, fearing the worst. \u201c<\/span>Mommy, he said he’s going to cut my throat<\/span><\/i>\u201d, Georgia replies, as her devastated mother tells MIIR. The same fear pushes Georgia to seek protection. It was not her first savage beating by her 71-year-old partner, who has reportedly been convicted of assaulting another woman in the past – not that this has any restraining effect.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n At the station she finds other police officers who finally take her statement, advising her not to stay in her house and placing the “panic button” app on her phone, so that she can call for help if she needs it. It wasn’t enough.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Three days later, on the morning of December 5, Georgia falls dead. Her abuser sought her out at her mother’s house where she had taken refuge. He shot her twice with a shotgun through the glass of the front-door, fatally wounding her in the abdomen and chest. The assailant was arrested but it was too late. Georgia was the 12th femicide victim for 2023 in Greece.<\/span><\/p>\n Femicides without end in Greece and Europe\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n There is no official record of femicide in Greece, and the government insists that there is no reason to make femicide an crime in its own right. This is despite the fact that <\/span>the number of women murdered or subjected to violence by men remains extremely high<\/b> in the country. The consolidation of violence against women both in Greece and in Europe is reflected in the cross-border data investigation conducted for a second year by the <\/span>Mediterranean Institute of Investigative Journalism (MIIR)<\/span><\/a> together with 14 other European journalism organisations in the context of the <\/span>European Data Journalism Network<\/span><\/a> (EDJNet).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For the needs of the investigation and in order to address the pan-European lack of comparable data on violence against women, the participating teams sought and contributed as up-to-date data as possible through requests to the relevant authorities in each country for the period 2014-2023. Data were analysed based on two primary sources: the reports of the<\/span> European Institute for Gender Equality<\/span><\/a> (<\/span>EIGE<\/b> – provided data up to 2018) and <\/span>EUROSTAT <\/b>(data up to 2021). EIGE focuses on indicators measuring intimate partner violence, rape and femicide, while Eurostat focuses on intentional homicides, paying particular attention to the victim-offender relationship (partner or family member). It should be noted that EIGE considers this definition of intentional homicide by a partner or relative to be the closest to femicide. In our analysis we only included data that we were confident were consistent with EIGE standards.<\/span><\/p>\n By counting femicides based on data analysed to EIGE standards, we estimate at least <\/span>4221<\/b> victims in Europe between 2012-2022 (comparable data for Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Ireland, Poland and Romania are not available and not all countries have data for every year).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
A new cross-border data investigation by MIIR reveals gaps in the registration of femicides in Europe and Greece and the ineffective protection of women against crimes of sexual, physical, psychological and economic violence over the last decade. <\/i>
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