Over 120,000 arrested for various offenses in 2024 – Foreigners make up 55% of prison inmates

One of the biggest problems facing Greek society is crime. The Hellenic Police marque important efforts to combat it, but it is practically intolerable to drawback everyone who breaks the law. And adjacent erstwhile offenders are arrested, determination are galore cases wherever Judicial Authorities instrumentality decisions that rise morganatic questions astir their correctness.

We person dealt with this contented before, presenting authoritative figures from EL.AS. reports. For example, successful our nonfiction of October 25, 2023, titled “Crime among Foreigners successful Greece”, we cited information from the EL.AS. Statistical Yearbook for 2022. Almost 2 years later, we decided to look for much caller figures. How galore radical were arrested successful 2024 for assorted offenses, however galore were Greek nationals and however galore foreigners, and what differences beryllium compared to 2022 (when COVID-19 measures were inactive successful place) and 2024.

Greek nationals and foreigners arrested successful 2024 for assorted offenses

In 2022, 57,333 Greek nationals and 54,212 foreigners were arrested for assorted offenses. In 2024, the fig of Greek nationals arrested jumped to 73,479 (Table 42) – 16,146 much than successful 2022 (an summation of 29.78%). Foreigners arrested successful 2024 numbered 57,150 (Table 43), 2,938 much than successful 2022. Clearly, the summation successful arrested foreigners is overmuch smaller compared to that of arrested nationals (5.42%).

What struck america astir erstwhile reviewing EL.AS. tables is the fig of juvenile offenders (aged 12–18, breached down into 2 groups: 12–14 and 15–18). According to Table 31, which records known offenders by property class (for felonies and misdemeanors committed oregon attempted), determination were 2,400 individuals aged 12–14 and 11,956 aged 15–18!

Another peculiarly absorbing array is Table 59, which shows the fig of radical who attempted oregon committed termination successful 2024 and the reasons that drove them to it.

992 termination attempts and 404 suicides successful 2024

Unfortunately, 1,306 of our chap quality beings tried to extremity their lives successful 2024. Of these, 404 died, portion 992 “only” attempted. Table 59 shows:

• 658 attempts for chartless reasons
• 99 for romanticist reasons
• 104 owed to illness
• 89 for household reasons
• 42 for fiscal reasons

As for suicides:

• 321 for chartless reasons
• 10 for romanticist reasons
• 38 owed to illness
• 17 for household reasons
• 8 for fiscal reasons

These numbers, successful our view, are large. Every quality beingness has unsocial and large value. Both the families of those showing suicidal tendencies and the State should amusement much involvement and support.

Comparing with 2022: determination were 950 termination attempts past (fewer than successful 2024), portion 505 radical really ended their lives successful 2022 – 101 much than successful 2024.

Since immoderate volition privation to comparison with the erstwhile SYRIZA government, enactment that the EL.AS. Statistical Yearbook successful its existent signifier started being published successful 2020, nether ND. A applicable earlier fig is that successful 2016 the Cyber Crime Unit prevented 337 cases of termination attempts announced online.

Finally, regarding gender: of the 992 radical who attempted termination successful 2024, 611 were men and 381 women; of those who died, 341 were men and 63 women.

Foreign inmates stay dependable astatine astir 55% successful Greek prisons

In our nonfiction connected January 8, 2023, regarding the percent of overseas inmates successful Greek prisons, we noted that this percent was adjacent to 60% (specifically 59.9% connected 01/02/2021). Looking astatine updated information from the World Prison Brief, 3 years later, connected 31/01/2024, the stock of overseas inmates successful Greek prisons had decreased by astir 10% compared to 2021, present astatine 54.1%.

On the aforesaid date, the full situation colonisation was 10,203 (including pre-trial detainees). 27.6% were successful pre-trial detention. Women accounted for 4.9% of the situation population, and minors conscionable 0.3%.

Numerically, arsenic of 31/01/2024, determination were astir 5,520 overseas inmates successful Greek prisons. The full capableness of the 34 correctional facilities is 10,775, with an occupancy complaint of 94.7%. At its highest successful 2014, occupancy reached 116%, past dropped to 89% successful 2016, roseate to 93% successful 2018, and to 102% successful 2020.

Greece is fundamentally archetypal successful Europe successful presumption of the proportionality of overseas inmates, since countries up successful percentages (Cyprus, Luxembourg, Monaco, etc.) person acold less full inmates. For example, Monaco has a 93.5% overseas inmate rate, but lone 31 prisoners successful full (meaning 27–28 of them are foreigners).

The diminution successful the fig of overseas inmates successful Greece coincides with the wide alteration successful the full situation population.

As for their nationalities, nary authoritative caller information exist. Back successful 2017, the past SYRIZA Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis announced successful Parliament (25/01/2017) that of the 5,221 overseas inmates successful Greek prisons astatine the time, 1,617 were Albanians, 444 Pakistanis, 417 Bulgarians, 375 Turks, 298 Syrians, 291 Georgians, and 223 Romanians. The remainder came from assorted different countries.

Sources:
Statistical Yearbook of the Hellenic Police 2024 (publicly disposable online)
World Prison Brief (data publically disposable online)