19 January 2021 10:17am
Veteran Olympic champion Sofia Bekatorou was summoned to testify before prosecutor Sotiria Papageorgakopoulou on Wednesday, after she reported that she had been sexually abused by a Sailing Federation official in 1998.
Despite the launch of the prosecutor’s investigation, other possible victims of similar behaviour must now come forward to testify in order for the case to be prosecuted, as the offences Ms Bekatorou described are now statute-barred.
Ms Bekatorou told the Greek edition of Marie Claire that she had suffered the assault in 1998 when she was 21 years of age.
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis commended the athlete on social media for speaking up.