In the first conviction for sexual harassment in Greece, a Greek court convicted Dimitris Assimakopoulos of sexual harassment and punished him with a 10 month suspended prison sentence.
Assimakopoulos, the head of the Veropoulos supermarket chain in Patras, was convicted of harassing a 23-year-old employee. When the woman complained about the harassment, he fired her and three other employees who had witnessed the repeated harassment.
A 1992 Greek survey found that 60 percent of women employees had suffered harassment in the workplace.
