It seems that drastic crimes are driving uncontrollably since Babis Anagnostopoulos killed Caroline Crouchit.
Since the lockdown was relieved in mid-May, approximately every alternative day, there has been some kind of vicious crime in Greece like murders, stabbings, abductions, and many more. It is as if everyone whacked a gasket at once.
Early this week, two boys of 15 and 13 years of age, equipped with a knife, ransacked a 16-year-old in a tram-train at midday in Athens’s south suburbs.
Also, in the existing week, a 54-year-old man, a refugee from a psychiatric hospital, ambushed and injured four passers-by in Zografou. After the phenomenal assault on outsiders on the freeway, the man ransacked his residence and contacted the police.
The perpetrator said, Come on, I have stabbed people and will commit suicide while calling the police.Â
 It summons attention in case of family violence crimes with cozy companions, possibly because of a lockdown for six months.
Especially the invasion in Zografou of Athens brings out additional vigilance to mental asylums, as it looks like patients are escaping handily and putting the lives of themselves and others in jeopardy.Â
Violent Crimes Since Lockdown
There are numerous violent crimes in Greece, as reported in the past few weeks. Some of them are as follows:
May 11 – The bloodbath of Caroline Crouch.
May 12 – Actor Petros Fillipidis was accused of ravishment and tried to molest three women.
May 13 – A 60-year-old man was looted and injured by a gang of juveniles when he grumbled about keeping a corona party.
June 14 – In Halkidiki, a 25-year-old attacks and shoots two women outside the pub.
June 21 – While on duty in a residential building, a 50-year-old woman cleaner is grabbed, beaten, and assaulted.Â
June 23 – A preacher throws liquid acid at seven bishops at an interior earshot session, bringing them to the sanitarium.
Since March 2020, on Covid-19, there arises a macabre day-to-day news cue. The daily testimony is the number of patients, number of demises, and number of intubations.
On May 21, New Democracy MP Yiannis Loverdos announced in the senate that even though a man whips his wife or outrages her, he can still be a decent father.Â
Europol report on severe crimes and Covid-19
By the report from the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, Europol, in its entirety, other widespread violence events were observed to drop, arguably due to the criterion of lockdown.
Nevertheless, charges against law enforcement crew with enforcement of the constraints of COVID-19, household turmoil caused by stress, and deception by some fugitives targeted as crime menaces to pharmaceutical manufactory to attain access to medications used in the remedy of COVID-19 patients have been investing during the monitoring period.
The question of how Covid-19 has existed related to crime and this infected Europe? In the precise intervals, the retrieval of rigorous lockdown measures may exemplify a predicament, that is, identical to the advent of the epidemic.
In this system, the activities of criminals will go on to abuse the circumstance. Also, numerous crime strategies may become extra arduous.
Executive Director of Europol, Catherine De Bolle, proclaimed that the personal felons have been quick to falsify the dilemma incited by the COVID-19 pandemic, modifying their actions to the current circumstance.
Criminal perils have persisted actively, altering modern illicit efforts emerging during the catastrophe and in its fallout.
Lengthened emotional response residing with anxiety
Existing with a highly burdensome circumstance for months is not a crisis of human physiology. We are advanced for combating difficult circumstances, but permitting it to get under our skin with excessive and extended sensitive reactions is a catastrophe, by Elissa Epel, PhD, a stress scientist and instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.
Persistent anxiety left unhindered can deaden our immune reaction, which is a priority of our analysis. We only expect medication, a fast means to say no to severe anxiety and tension. Anxiety science has a ton to explain about problems we cannot supervise, and necessarily, a worldwide pandemic is a criterion.
The psychiatrist asserted that we are confronting acute traumatic stress presently amid this pandemic. In other words, COVID-19 is an explicit hazard to our life.
We are all either vicariously observing concussion, through fora or through assisting others, or quickly encountering, falling sick, isolated, or facing the hardship of others. In some controversial ways, we all comprehend that being normal has changed its meaning, and the world will never be the same again.
Epel added, one of the extensively influential components for the subtraction of stress is warm tending sentimental aid. Alternatives to support abound.
Assisting manners are recognized to be happiness demeanours as well. She declared that we could fight our best war against this violent virus by rising above our reptilian anxiety responses.
According to Epel, solitude paired with psychological and financial stress supporting the pandemic as well as a feasible gain in bearing with pessimistic mechanisms. Such as excessive consumption of alcohol can come concurrently in a perfect downpour to ignite a phenomenal ripple of family turmoil.
As social distancing criteria moved toward into the habitat, alcohol sales rose, and as bistros, bars shut down, people were savoring extra within the confines of their residences.
