CYPRUS: Two new allegations of harassment by a priest

Three other allegations of sexual harassment were lodged with the Special Police Unit investigating such cases, bringing the total to 23. According to information from "Liberal", Two of the three new complaints also concern a priest and the third in harassment of a woman by a man. According to the same information, the two complaints against a priest come from women and the alleged offenses were committed a few years ago. In these two cases, the complaints against people who come from the ecclesiastical space and who entered the frame of the investigations, amount to five and concern three persons.

In the meantime, the director and actor Dimitris Heimonas sent an open letter to the THOK, informing him that he had made a complaint to the Police, in relation to "deception, deception and sexual harassment" committed against the well-known Greek director. The letter mentions two cases in 2012, one of which was known to a former employee of THOK, which took place when the actor did his internship and was only 18 years old. According to the actor, he is forced to speak publicly due to the attitude of THOK people who after the revelations in Greece and Cyprus, "declare essentially absent αυτή This attitude is due, at best, to dangerous conservatism, and at worst, to possible interests of silence what we have heard, we hear, and we are going to hear.

In his letter, Mr. Heimonas leaves tips for the Board. of THOK, stating that "you consciously tried to disorient the discussion, saying that these things happen in other areas as well (as if this eliminates the importance of the request for the consolidation of the theatrical sector), voluntarily blinding to the exploitation , and shifting the blame to others, such as the guilds, renouncing your institutional role. " "So while you knew who the 18-year-old was in THOK in 2012, and you had my contact details at your disposal, after this publication there was no response of support or solidarity, nor offer of testimony in my case (something that other colleagues did)", ends up.

Later, in an announcement, THOK states that it will not show any tolerance for phenomena of sexual harassment and violence. Especially for the Winter complaints, he states that no letter has reached him and that he was informed about the case by the media.