- VICTIM SUPPORT
- THE RIGHTS OF VICTIMS OF CRIME
- Victims right to understand and to be understood
- Right to receive information from the very first contact with the competent authority
- Victims’ rights when making a complaint
- Victims’ right to receive information about their case
- The right to translation
- The right to access victim support services
- Support from victim support services
- Right to safeguards in terms of restorative justice services
- Victims’ rights who reside in another EU member state
- Right to avoid contact between victim and offender
- Victim protection during the criminal investigation
- Protection of private life
- Individual assessment of victims- Special protection
- Right to protection of victims with special needs during criminal proceedings
- Rights of the witness of crime
- CRIMINAL COURT PROCEEDINGS
- WHO IS WHO IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
- I WAS A VICTIM OF CRIME: COMMON REACTIONS
Right to avoid contact between victim and offender
(according to Article 65 of Law 4478/2017)
The victim can be protected from possible contact with the perpetrator of the crime without this being a problem or an obstacle to the course of the criminal proceedings. The aim of this regulation is to ensure the safety of the victim and to prevent secondary or multiple victimization. Practical ways of implementing this right and the adoption of specific measures are also provided for, such as the provision of separate entrances to police buildings and courts, separate waiting rooms, the arrival of the offender and the victim at different times, etc.
Specifically, Article 65 of Law 4478/2017 provides the following:
1. The victim may request in writing that measures be taken to prevent contact between him or her and, where appropriate, his or her family members and the offender at the premises of the criminal proceedings. The above-mentioned request shall be irrevocably decided by the Tripartite Plenary Court of the place where the criminal proceedings take place, at whichever stay they may be, by means of the in flagrante delicto procedure.
2. Without prejudice to the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure on witnesses, the design of new court buildings should provide for separate waiting areas for each victim.