A 70-year-old man was given a six-month, three-year suspended sentence for sexually harassed The 19-year-old foot soldier is about to vote last Sunday morning at a polling station in Thessaloniki.

Testifying in court, the 19-year-old said that the defendant caught up with him while he was looking for his polling station to vote, addressed him with an inappropriate proposal, while touching a sensitive part of his body. “I was excited and called for immediate action,” said the complainant, among other things.

For his part, the 70-year-old man denied the act, describing the complaint as unreliable. “Absolutely nothing happened. This loving behavior is unknown to me. I had to be a monster to do this in front of so many people,” he said in his apology. He is reported to be in charge of the cafeteria at the school, where it functioned as a polling station. After the conviction, he appealed and was released.

Source: RES-IPE