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As Flash Mob Watches, Greek Teen Girl Beaten Savagely by Group

September 25, 2024

ATHENS – In another instance of unchecked youth violence in Greece, a 14-year-old was beaten senseless by a group of teens while a crowd notified on social media that it would happen came to watch without trying to stop it.

She wasn’t identified but a video that quickly spread online showed her attacked by a group of about two dozen teens, mostly girls, knocking her to the ground as they burned her hair and tried to strip her to her underwear before a man approached.

The assault happened in the upscale neighborhood of Glyfada with media reports, including on TV, indicating that two jealous female classmates led the brutality that was joined in by others.

It was the latest in a growing number of violent attacks on students and teens, including in schools, with authorities unable to stop it, reports that this time it was a well-organized plan on Instagram advertising others to come and see.

The victim was said to have been in the neighborhood with friends – no report if they tried to stop the attack – when a group of 25-30 minors approached her and pulled her away from her friends and into a dark alley, said To Vima.

She was hit so many times that she fell unconscious, the attackers then trying to set her air on fire and strip her as she couldn’t resist, the report said, with images from the video shown on MEGA TV.

The station said that the attackers targeted her “because she was beautiful, a top student and responsible for recording pupils’ absences,” but no names were given as all involved were minors.

A reporter at MEGA said a Medical Examiner was stunned by how many blows the victim took although it wasn’t said how badly she was injured. “The coroner said he couldn’t find a small spot on her body that wasn’t bruised,” reports the journalist.

The incident was filmed by many of the teens that were standing by and observing the attack, and the report said none intervened, some instead capturing it on their phones before police notified by a citizen arrived.

They arrested the two teen girls who were said to have orchestrated the attack, said To Vima, while the victim and her parents have filed a suit against the girls who were detained, no report if they were then released.

MEGA said that the two of the attackers’ parents have been taken into custody and are likely to be charged with neglect of a minor but Greek law is so lenient in Greece on minors that if anyone is convicted – or even charged- the penalty will be light. It wasn’t said if those charged in the attack would be expelled.

The victim’s father said his daughter had been targeted before, no report if anything was done about that, and the government’s response to growing youth violence is to have a panic button app on cell phones.

Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis earlier announced the phone app he said would be available to any minors or parents who wish to use it, so that at any moment, children in danger can call for help.”

That was said at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) in early September but the newspaper said there’s no indication whether it’s available yet or if there would be further measures aimed against youth violence.

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