Vigil for Caroline Crouch, Newest Victim of Femicide in Greece

Crouch Memorial Femicide
Dozens collected in a Saturday vigil to draw interest to the femicide of Caroline Crouch. Credit: Hellenic Network for Feminists

A group of far more than 500 women and adult men came with each other Saturday night time in Syntagma Square in Athens, contacting for the term, femicide, known in Greek as “gynoktonia,” to be acknowledged by the state as a unique criminal offense.

They also held a vigil for Caroline Crouch, the most up-to-date Greek sufferer of “death by domesticity.”

Gals and guys clad in black, some acquiring smeared their hands and necks in pink, appeared on the methods in front of Parliament to mourn the murder of Crouch. Holding symptoms and lighting candles, the Hellenic Community for Feminists said on their Fb web page that the murder verified all over again that males dedicate femicide to command and possess women of all ages.

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