Police numbers presented here refer to incidents, which may include more than one crime.
The Hellenic Police with the co-operation of Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights and the Prosecutor's Office of the Court of First Instance of Athens developed a new template to ease tracking of hate crime cases progressing through the criminal justice system.
A further 29 hate speech cases were reported but are not presented here.
A further seven hate speech and discrimination cases were reported but are not presented here.
A further three hate speech cases were reported but are not presented here.
A further four cases of hate speech were reported but are not presented here.
This number consists of five homophobic and eight transphobic crimes. A further ten cases of hate speech were reported but are not presented here.
A further three cases of hate speech were reported but are not presented here.
In her "Report on the visit to Greece", the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe reiterated previous recommendations for the authorities to enhance implementation of existing anti-hate crime law, to collect and analyse hate crime data in a more systematic manner and to raise public awareness of hate crime.
ODIHR observes that Greece has not reported on cases of hate crimes separately from cases of hate speech.