Prosecutor recommends trial for four officers in Griva’s murder

[InTime News]

A authoritative investigating the murder of a woman by her erstwhile partner extracurricular an Athens constabulary station connected April 1, 2024, is recommending that 4 constabulary officers stand trial for the felony of fatal vulnerability by omission.

The individuals see the supervisor, the work officer, the serviceman who witnessed the transgression without intervening and the exigency dispatch relation who dismissed the victim’s pleas for harmless transport home, telling her, “Patrol cars are not taxis.” All 4 were charged successful January 2025.

The authoritative said the officers “had a special ineligible work by instrumentality to take enactment to forestall the result and near a idiosyncratic they had under their extortion helpless, and their enactment caused the decease of the victim.”

She besides said that the restrictive conditions imposed connected the defendants should beryllium maintained. The last determination for the referral of the 4 officers lies with a judicial council.

Kyriaki Griva, 28, was stabbed to decease by her ex-partner soon aft leaving the constabulary station successful Agioi Anargyroi, where she had gone to study him for stalking and to petition a constabulary escort home.

The 40-year-old killer, Athanassios Kourelis, was sentenced to life imprisonment positive 5 years successful July 2025.