Греция

Греция регулярно предоставляет БДИПЧ данные о преступлениях на почве ненависти.

В 2017 году Греция реализовала программу БДИПЧ «Обучение сотрудников прокуратуры мерам борьбы с преступлениями на почве ненависти» (ОПБПН). В июне 2018 года соответствующими государственными органами и сетью организаций гражданского общества было подписано "Соглашение о межведомственном сотрудничестве по борьбе с преступлениями на почве расизма", которое было реализовано в рамках проекта БДИПЧ "Разработка комплексного реагирования системы уголовного правосудия на преступления на почве ненависти". В результате соглашение привело к улучшению регистрации преступлений на почве ненависти и сбора данных. В феврале 2022 года БДИПЧ провело диагностический онлайн-семинар с участием представителей правительства, органов уголовного правосудия и организаций гражданского общества с целью оценки структур и служб поддержки жертв преступлений на почве ненависти в Греции.

В 2022 году отделу Министерства юстиции было поручено следить за систематическим сбором статистических данных о преступлениях на почве ненависти.

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OFFICIAL DATA REPORTED BY STATES

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2023	97	115	22
2022	99	32	20
2021	110	2	1
2020	171	34	0
2019	Not available	Not available	Not available
2018	164	17	4
2017	128	46	6
2016	40	6	2
2015	60	27	4
2014	71	29	5
2013	109	9	0
2012	1	1	Not available
2011	Not available	Not available	1
2010	2	Not available	Not available
2009	2	2	Not available

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Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

Reports

Anti-Semitic hate crime

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece reported 13 cases of vandalism, including the desecration of cemeteries, synagogues and Holocaust memorials in January 2009. The Greek Helsinki Monitor reported an arson attempt on a synagogue and two cases each of the vandalization of a synagogue, a Jewish cemetery and a Holocaust memorial. The Stephen Roth Institute reported three violent incidents.

Anti-Muslim hate crime

The Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association reported three arson attacks and the desecration of a cemetery. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe reported three assaults, two arson attacks (one against a mosque) and five acts of vandalism (two of mosques and three of memorial sites).

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime, Anti-Semitic hate crime

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) strongly encouraged the authorities in Greece to “combat racist crimes more actively”. It also expressed concern about anti-Semitism.

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

In Greece, in May 2009, a police officer allegedly defaced an extract of the Koran during an identity check on an Iraqi man. This led to demonstrations by the Muslim community that degenerated into violent clashes with the police. More than ten people were injured, dozens of cars were badly damaged and 46 people were arrested. In the two days following the protests, an unidentified group of people in Agios Panteleimonas set fire to a building used for prayer by the Muslim community. UNHCR reported that “members of extreme-right organizations and some local residents abused human rights activists”. The playground in Agios Panteleimonas where Afghan mothers used to go with their children was closed and immigrants have since been kept out of the square by local squads of vigilantes. A Greek flag has been raised inside the closed playground.