The provisions of the Criminal Law Code now include the so-called stalking as a crime, ie a continuous behaviour of threat, surveillance and harassment, with which the intervention in the victim’s private sphere is particularly burdensome and compensation for the victims can be provided.

It is essentially the verbal or other means of harassment -mainly- of women (sending emails,, messages, phone calls, etc.) that did not constitute a criminal offence to date as it did not involve threats, but it also caused fear and mental turmoil.
At the end of paragraph 1 of Article 333 of the Criminal Law Code, a paragraph is added as follows: by electronic means or by visits to his family, social or work environment, in spite of his expressed opposite will.

These provisions are contained in a bill of the Ministry of Justice entitled: «Ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention and Control of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence and adaptation of Greek legislation». The bill was put to public consultation.

Chloritidectomy

The «incitement to clitoridectomy» is also introduced as a crime in the Penal Code. To this day, this heinous act of underage girls (mostly) from Africa is being punished in our country as a «dangerous bodily harm.»
Now the encouragement will be introduced in this practice, since usually the family environment is what pushes the girl in this direction: “3. Article 310 of the Penal Code adds paragraph 4 as follows: “4. Whoever intentionally persuades a woman, adult or minor, to commit an act of mutilation or self-mutilation, if this act was committed or an attempt was made, is punishable by imprisonment”.
At the same time, he goes one step further by abolishing, as a mitigating circumstance, the customs and traditions of his place of origin: 1. The case. a) of paragraph 3 of article 79 of the Penal Code is amended as follows: “a) the reasons that pushed him to commit the crime, the reason given to him and the purpose he pursued. The customs and traditions of the perpetrator, as well as his religion, do not constitute evidence capable of reducing the sentence. »

Domestic Violence

The provisions on domestic violence are now supplemented by a provision that concerns (in addition to ex-spouses already in force) and ex-partners.A criminal offence is also converted into a compulsion to enter into a marriage contract: marriage, In par. 1 of article 323 A of the Penal Code after the phrase» his request «the party is deleted and the phrase» or in order to force this person to perform a marriage ceremony «is added.»The prediction is made because this compulsion is also considered a type of trafficking.

Source: site capital.gr