The internal investigation conducted by the Hellenic Police has identified criminal liabilities, rather than solely disciplinary ones, for the police officers involved in the femicide of Kyriaki Griva.
Apart from the ongoing Sworn Administrative Investigation, which is already examining disciplinary offenses, the Internal Affairs Service of the Hellenic Republic of Greece is concurrently conducting another investigation, explicitly focusing on criminal offenses.
According to a Kathimerini report, the service will take into account the conversation held on Sunday with the Emergency phone line, footage from the Police Station’s security cameras, and the terms of reference and guidelines provided by police leadership for handling incidents of domestic violence.
Criminal liabilities are determined for those who failed to react while witnessing the crime and for those who were within the Police Station and had direct contact with the victim.
The Internal Affairs officers investigate, among other things, whether the uniformed officers committed dereliction of duty, a criminal offense punishable by up to two years in prison. However, due to procedural reasons, they are unable to request a statement from the police officers who are under investigation.
According to officials from the Internal Affairs Service, as reported by the publication K,” As a uniformed officer, he had a special obligation to react.” He claimed he did not have good visibility and, therefore, did not see that the perpetrator was holding a knife.
On the other hand, concerning the police officers who had direct contact with the victim, they were legally obliged to inform a prosecutor if they received information about crimes such as domestic violence, and they failed to fulfill this obligation.
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