Drifterwood
Superior Member
I agree fgeorgio, though it is rather girls because they are drunk who are getting raped, and equally by the locals as drunk british guys.
It does, with the exception that apparently many of the culprits are well beyond university age. :tongue:
'The English are very nice and polite when they're sober, but when they're drunk they lose all control.'
Some women seem to accept even before they fly out to Malia that pregnancy may inexorably ensue.
'Many women come in asking for a morning-after Pill to keep just in case something happens, but we refuse. This is not what it is for,' says the doctor.
Sex becomes a grey area when both parties are paralytic. Is the girl consenting, or simply unable to fend off the boy?
They do it all over the place, on the beach and even in the cemetery. One former barman told me he saw a girl having sex with a boy as she lay on a prickly plant in a hotel garden.
'She arrived in the afternoon and was perfectly nice and normal. Then she went out and came back plastered, and lay on the plant and had sex with the boy,' he said.
'Someone went out to tell them to stop but got told to f*** off. Later I saw her and she was covered in cuts and bruises.'
The circumstances of the latest rape allegation involving the 18-year-old boy are unclear, and the identity of the accused protected at the moment by Greek law until it goes to trial.
But it's doubtful it will ever get to court. After appearing at the Heraklion court, the boy was released pending further enquiries.
He said he had no money to pay bail and it seems there was no desire to lock him up. He's probably back in Britain now. No details have been released about the girl.
But that is the way of things here with the British teenagers. Rather than send them to jail, the authorities let them off with a fine.
Around ten Britons a week appear at the court. They're usually here on assault charges after a fight, or for driving drunk while riding a quad bike. Many appear on public indecency charges after stripping naked and running through the streets.
My husband and I have visited the beautiful Island of Crete last year and we have to say, unfortunately, that the latest newspaper reports on this subject is quite accurate and spot on. We have witnessed first hand these kind of behaviour from fellow Brits, to the extend that we were very ashamed to admit that we were from England. We have seen the chaos and distruction at the hands of Brits and we have seen the utter terror of the very peaceful Greek people who uphold public decorum and respectful behaviour. The sad thing of what we have witnessed during a 3 week period was that it was not just a handful of Brits disgracing themselves (and this country) but the majority. At one stage our hotel manager asked us to give him advice as he was desperate to deal with the British tourists in his posh hotel. And trust me, they absolutley showed no regard for other tourists of other countries, not even for their own fellow Brits. The British tourist is now a "marked" tourist thanx to these yob
- Rene, Maidstone, UK, 25/8/2008 16:47