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Summary A 28-year-old Greek woman was found murdered outside an Athens police precinct, immediately after requesting protection from an ex-boyfriend.

Content <p>Greek authorities on Tuesday ordered an urgent investigation into a woman's <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/homicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fatal stabbing</a> outside an Athens police precinct where she had just requested protection from an ex-boyfriend.</p><p>The 28-year-old's death triggered new calls by left-wing opposition parties for femicide — the killing of women or girls with a gender-related motivation — to be recognized as a distinct term in Greece's <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criminal code</a>.</p><p>The minister in charge of the police, Michalis Chrisochoidis, promised a "full, in-depth" investigation of Monday's killing that occurred a few dozen yards from the Aghii Anargyri police station.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/greek-islands-launch-special-visa-program-turkish-visitors-diplomatic-effort-calm-region" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>GREEK ISLANDS LAUNCH SPECIAL VISA PROGRAM FOR TURKISH VISITORS IN DIPLOMATIC EFFORT TO CALM REGION</strong></a></p><p>The woman's 39-year-old former partner was arrested and was being treated under police guard in a psychiatric hospital after allegedly intentionally stabbing himself following the attack.</p><p>"What matters now is to fully investigate the incident … and see what the police did or didn’t do," Chrisochoidis told state ERT television. "This must be done in a very few days, hours even."</p><p>A police statement Tuesday said the victim visited the precinct with a friend and reported that her former boyfriend — against whom she had made formal complaints in the past for abusive behavior — had been loitering outside her home.</p><p>According to the statement, she requested a patrol car to take her home for her protection, but because she declined to make a formal complaint, she was directed to phone the police emergency line to send a vehicle.</p><p>The statement said she made the call on her way out of the precinct. But "while she was talking to a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/police-and-law-enforcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police operator</a> she was suddenly attacked by her former partner, who fatally injured her with a knife."</p><p>Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou expressed shock at the killing.</p><p>"The murder ... yet another femicide, shakes and angers us," she said in a statement. "It shows ... the urgent responsibility authorities have to fight gender-based violence and crime."</p><p>The police statement said members of the force are trained to respond to gender-based violence, following protocols "that are constantly updated."</p><p>"It must be examined to what extent these (protocols) were followed," Chrisichoidis said. He added that while he supported the criminal code reform requested by opposition parties, that should follow a "serious and calm debate" by legal experts.</p><p>The Athens stabbing was the sixth femicide reported in Greece this year. In 2023, 15 were reported.</p>

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