Forensic medicine in Greece is provided by three public structures: the forensic services of the Ministry of Justice, the university forensic laboratories and the National Health System hospitals that have this specialty.
Learn MoreThe more people learn about forensic medicine, the more they realise how necessary it is in a wide range of cases, notes the President of the Hellenic Society of Forensic Medicine, Grigoris Leon.
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Hospitals in Greece have no system for recording medical errors, and neither the national health system nor the Ministry of Health has any central system that receives and collects all complaints of medical errors.
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Forensic pathologist Dr Grigoris Leon explains, in an original way, what victims of a beating should do immediately.
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Nine out of ten crimes in Greece are eventually solved. But there is always that one in ten that is still looking for its killer.
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Since the 1920s, the head of a man killed with an axe has been floating in formalin in a jar.
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The legal and judicial investigation of an accident is often a particularly complex process, in which all available evidence must be examined and new evidence gathered.
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Violence against women is taking on ever greater dimensions in Greece too, with gender-based crimes such as sexual assault, rape and domestic violence on the rise.
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The abuser was sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment and deprivation of his civil rights for 5 years
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How the 36-year-old Bulgarian woman set up the plot – DNA proved the young man was innocent
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