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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.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>.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.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/greek-islands-launch-special-visa-program-turkish-visitors-diplomatic-effort-calm-region" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GREEK ISLANDS LAUNCH SPECIAL VISA PROGRAM FOR TURKISH VISITORS IN DIPLOMATIC EFFORT TO CALM REGION</a>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."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."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.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.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."Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou expressed shock at the killing."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."The police statement said members of the force are trained to respond to gender-based violence, following protocols "that are constantly updated.""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.The Athens stabbing was the sixth femicide reported in Greece this year. In 2023, 15 were reported.

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content: 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.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>.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.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/greek-islands-launch-special-visa-program-turkish-visitors-diplomatic-effort-calm-region"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">GREEK ISLANDS LAUNCH SPECIAL VISA PROGRAM
 FOR TURKISH VISITORS IN DIPLOMATIC EFFORT TO CALM REGION</a>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."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."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.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.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."Greek President
 Katerina Sakellaropoulou expressed shock at the killing."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."The
 police statement said members of the force are trained to respond to gender-based
 violence, following protocols "that are constantly updated.""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.The Athens stabbing
 was the sixth femicide reported in Greece this year. In 2023, 15 were reported.
summary: A 28-year-old Greek woman was found murdered outside an Athens police precinct,
 immediately after requesting protection from an ex-boyfriend.
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