- 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
Victim protection during the criminal investigation
(according to Article 66 of Law 4478/2017)
In order to ensure that the victim is not particularly inconvenienced during investigation of the crime, the law lays down specific rights and procedures (Article 66 of Law 4478/2017). Specifically, provision is made for proceedings without delay, for victims to be accompanied by their legal representative or another person of their choice, for medical examinations to be limited to those that are strictly necessary, and for special arrangements to be made in the event that the victim is a minor.
Specifically, Article 66 of Law 4478/2017 provides:
Law enforcement, prosecuting and judicial authorities shall ensure that, insofar as the effectiveness of the proceedings is not jeopardized:
- (a) the examination of victims shall be carried out without undue delay after the crime has been reported to the competent authority and with as limited and necessary a number of statements from the victim as possible,
- (b) if they are not accompanied by an attorney of their choice or ex officio counsel, victims may be accompanied by their legal representative or by another natural person of their choice, unless a reasoned decision has been taken to the contrary in respect to one or both of these persons,
- c) medical examinations are kept to a minimum and are carried out only when strictly necessary for the purposes of the criminal proceedings; and to investigate the veracity of the allegations,
- (d) if the victim is a minor, the person examining also records, verbatim in the report, the questions put to the victim.