A feminine journalist filed an official sexual harassment criticism to police in opposition to a male former colleague at Sigma TV, greater than a 12 months after he was let go when the girl notified the station of untoward sexual advances.
The journalist testified to police final week over a collection of occasions that occurred in 2020, when she was employed by Dias Group.
Police spokesperson Christos Andreou confirmed {that a} criticism had been made and an investigation launched, with a number of folks known as for testimony.
Each the suspect in addition to Sigma personnel shall be known as within the coming days.
The station stated in an announcement it had suspended the journalist with instant impact after being notified that an official criticism had been made, in order that investigators ‘might proceed their work with out obstacles’.
Commenting on criticism concerning the journalist being rehired, Sigma stated {that a} 12 months after the incident, the journalist utilized for a place. He was rehired on his skilled deserves, because the station says, and the truth that they had been no pending fees in opposition to him ‘by any girl’.
In line with Sigma, round a 12 months and a half in the past, the feminine journalist delivered to the eye of the station a collection of texts which she believed to be crossing the road of acceptable communication, as they acknowledged sexual curiosity.
The male journalist was known as at a gathering of station officers, together with the HR and Information Director, saying that the costs had been malicious.
Sigma instructed him on the time that there was no different resolution however his elimination from shut proximity with the girl, to which the journalist responded by quitting his submit, a growth that glad her.
A few month later, she additionally left the station, for causes unrelated to the incident.
Sigma notes that all through its lengthy historical past, each the station as effectively the entire of the DIAS Group has proven uncompromising respect and sensitivity to the dignity, safety and equality of alternative to their feminine staff.