An set up arrange throughout a protest on Tuesday outdoors the police station in Agioi Anargyroi, northern Athens, the place 28-year-old Kyriaki Griva was stabbed to dying, lists the names of different victims of comparable crimes. [Dimitris Sarelas/Intime News]
There is just one fact – and it’s harsh: Greek society (and rather more so the police) doesn’t care about us. That’s why lots of of cops may be discovered on the drop of a hat to beat up protesters and soccer followers and, in fact, to protect the mighty. However when a lady feels that her life is in peril and asks for his or her assist, they merely brush her off. Then, when she is murdered, they begin making insinuations: Why didn’t she press the panic button, why didn’t she sue her tormentor, why was she dressed provocatively, why did she speak again, why didn’t she break up with him and many others, and many others. The lady, “naturally,” is at all times accountable and is at all times answerable for placing herself in danger.
Effectively, the latest sufferer had performed every little thing proper. I dare anybody to argue with that. She had filed a proper criticism towards her tormentor for rape and bodily abuse. She had damaged up with him. She went to the police station and requested for assist, she instructed them that he had a historical past of violence – certainly, he has a document for attacking state staff and drug-related offenses and had been admitted to the Dafni Psychiatric Hospital thrice. And what was the results of all her right strikes? Was she saved? After all not! They let her depart, left her alone along with her enemy, though the police don’t want a proper request or a warrant to behave in instances of home abuse and will have acted. They let her be slayed proper outdoors the police station with a guard simply three meters away (or was he, maybe, not at his put up simply then? We’re fed one story one minute and one other the subsequent in typical deception type).
They don’t care about us. Take a look at “Babis” and all of the safety he acquired when he murdered his spouse in chilly blood. They don’t care about us. I communicate from expertise. What they principally consider is that we’ve got gotten uppity, that we complain about every little thing, that we sass our males, so in fact they get mad and lash out. What are they to do? They don’t care about us. They’ve poured a lot vitality into social media and tv to ensure that femicide just isn’t known as femicide. In order that society doesn’t see that males kill ladies as a result of they’re ladies – and since they will.
They don’t care about us. I’ve been on the receiving finish. I’ve seen it with my very own eyes. A number of years in the past, two buddies and I took a cab to a New 12 months’s Eve get together. The motive force assaulted me (I used to be sitting within the passenger seat in entrance) proper in the midst of downtown Academias Road for no purpose by any means and almost broke my arm. We scrambled out of the car, made a notice of the license plate quantity and ran as quick as we may out of his attain. He deserted the taxi in the midst of the road and chased us. He was slower than we have been, fortunately. We clearly ignored the get together and ran to the closest police station to report him. What occurred? Nothing! The cops laughed at our story. They ping-ponged us between totally different departments to stop us from following by way of. However we did observe by way of as a result of we have been decided and we wished to guard different ladies who would get into his cab.
Round daybreak they realized that we weren’t going away with out submitting a criticism and so they finally gave us the correct kinds to fill. On the trial we realized that the taxi driver was an authorized psychopath who had been granted furlough from the Dafni Psychiatric Hospital. Had we been slower, had we been in a extra remoted spot, he would have killed us. Get it? That’s what we spent all night time attempting to elucidate to the varied cops. You know the way they responded? “Come on women, let it go. It’s the vacations. The man was in all probability upset about one thing and went a bit too far. It’s not like something occurred.”
Nothing has modified since then. Society continues to be detached to ladies. It solely sympathizes with the boys who have been “in all probability upset about one thing and went a bit too far.” They don’t care about us. Perceive? They are going to order an inquiry, conclude that there’s not a lot that would have been performed in any other case after which drop the matter. That’s the reason we’ll proceed see a lady murdered each month like a lamb at Easter till their blood drowns us all.
Lena Divani is a author.
