The port city of Paleros
(Picture: Google Maps/ Δημητρης Φιλος)A British woman was allegedly raped close to a bar in a horror holiday attack in Greece.
The victim, 24, told police that a man forced her to commit sexual acts near a bar in the coastal resort of Paleros.
Police launched a manhunt and a 26-year-old suspect was arrested in the municipality of Akti-Vonitsa, in the western part of the country.
Local reports said the woman claimed the suspect used physical violence to force himself on her on Friday evening.
The man was arrested and a criminal case for rape has been filed against him.
He will be taken to the First Instance Prosecutor’s Office in Lefkada, Greek police said in a press statement.
The victim is expected to undergo a forensic examination.
Last month a British woman claimed Greek police wrongly charged her father with her rape on the island of Crete.
The 33-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, claimed her father was in her hotel at the time of the attack and said her attacker had been allowed to “roam free”.
The woman’s father, 62, was arrested two days after his daughter filed a police report in June.
