“We are all a blow to the victims. We claim to stay in our place “was the message of today’s large rally of those affected by Evia, Attica, Western Greece, Peloponnese, Thessaly and Crete, today in Syntagma.
The rally was attended by the secretary general of the KKE Central Committee, Dimitris Koutsoumbas.
“Three months after the catastrophic fire, we are living the criminal policy of the government, which continues not to take immediate support measures for our survival, not to proceed with compensation at 100% of all damages. Its criminal policy together with the other links of the state chain, regions and municipalities, have left the area un fortified and with the first rain flooded villages, making the destruction irreparable. We are literally living with the fear of the next rains, we are living with the nightmare of a new catastrophe, and we alone are taking protection measures, which of course are not enough “said Vangelis Georgantzis, member of the Coordinating Committee of North Evia and president of the Ritivon .
“We are determined to claim our right to live in our place with dignity, to claim here and now immediate measures for the survival of our families, for 100% compensation for all damage to homes, infrastructure, crops, animals, without asterisks and exceptions.
We are here today to claim lives and rights that were deprived of us even before the disasters. The right to health protection that the situation has become even more unbearable in the last two years with the pandemic. To claim the right to education of our children that we pay dearly to support. The right to permanent and stable work, with Collective Labor Agreements, increases in our salaries, guaranteed income to all farmers and the self-employed, free universal and public Social Insurance for all “he added.
“No apology can erase the criminal responsibility of all governments for the lack of infrastructure,” said Thanassis Vombiris, president of the Federation of Agricultural Associations of Ilia and a member of the Coordinating Committee of Firefighters of Ilia. does not include the needs of the people as a priority “.
Petros Karabelas from the Thrakomakedones-Varybombis Struggle Committee complained that “earthquakes, fires and floods have been seen in the area”, as well as “the government’s propaganda for extreme weather events”.
He also complained that “municipal authorities and governments present investors as saviors”.
“The fight for compensation and protection measures will continue, because it concerns our life and our lives,” he stressed.
“A year after” Ianos “when we lost people and our lives, no restoration and protection work has been done,” said Costas Tzellas, president of the Karditsa Agricultural Association and a member of the Bloc Committee.
He added that “a year later, the Mouzaki Health Center has not yet been repaired, no mortgages have been given to people whose homes have been destroyed”, and stressed the need to “be together” to overturn these policies and remain in our place “.
He also referred to the farmers’ request for the “change of the ELGA regulation, in order to be compensated for 100% of the damage”.
“No confidence in the bold words of the government for the next day”, stressed Giannis Vasilakis on behalf of the Arkalochori Earthquake Committee, emphasizing that “we must have confidence only in our struggle, as government and investors are interested in growth for a few”.
Nikos Stathakos, on behalf of the Coordinating Committee for the Struggle of the Fire Victims of Eastern Mani, expressed the determination of the residents of the area to fight to stay in their place.
“The government says it has taken action. He did get it. Millions of euros for big builders, big employers, for the people nothing. “It puts” cutters “in the criteria and throws out of the compensations the majority of the victims” noted Vassilis Vroulitis, on behalf of the Federation of Agricultural Associations of Peloponnese and stressed that “we are not one step behind the request for 100% compensation”.
“We are fighting through the rubble to build our lives and the government is whistling indifferently. “Winter is ahead of us, there are families who have not been supplied with electrical appliances,” said Athena Kalambouka, a member of the Mesochori-Elassona Earthquake Committee.
He stressed that the losses in livestock are also great and complained that several families were unjustly excluded from the allowance of 600 euros.
The support and solidarity of the construction workers was expressed by Giannis Anagnostou, president of the Athens Builders Union.
“Your struggle is ours until measures are taken to support you,” he noted.
“No life can be lost with a crumb, hundreds of acres of forests can be destroyed due to insufficient funding, hospitals and schools can collapse. “Bad weather is not to blame, the obstacle is the profit of business groups,” he stressed.
The rally ended with a march in Parliament attended by a delegation of protesters to deliver the resolution with their demands to the parties. The delegation had a meeting only with the KKE.
“We were accepted only by the KKE Central Committee, which declared its support for our just demands. The other parties in Parliament, it seems, did not intend to meet with us, although some had said they would meet with us. We continue and escalate our struggle, coordinated, until our just demands are met, “said Babis Tsivikas, a member of the Coordinating Committee of Firefighters of Northern Evia and the Mantoudi-Lake-Agia Anna Agricultural Association.
The victims demand:
– Immediate measures to protect the people from all natural disasters with flood, fire protection and anti-seismic shielding projects at the level of their needs and with sufficient funding for them, through a comprehensive plan for all of Greece. Along with the staffing of necessary staff of all services: Fire Brigade, Forestry, Urban Planning, etc.
– Priority in anti-corrosion and mainly flood protection projects in areas that have been destroyed by the recent, but also the fires of recent years throughout the country.
– Immediate restoration of all damage to infrastructure, roads, rural roads, electricity, water supply, irrigation, etc. Immediate restoration measures of all burned forest areas.
– Ensuring a decent living, housing and food for all those who have lost their homes and for the period of time necessary until the restoration of their homes.
– Compensation at 100% of all damages from all causes without terms and conditions, without any exclusion affected.
– Replenishment of lost income for all farmers, stockbreeders, professionals in the affected areas. Ensuring the necessary feed to the farmers and for as long as the ban on grazing in the burned areas will last. Accordingly, providing beekeeping for beekeepers. Especially for the resin growers-foresters, ensuring at least 15 years of employment in the reconstruction of forests, after they have lost their object of work.
– Staffing with the necessary permanent staff of the Health Centers, schools and welfare structures in all the affected areas, in order to cover the constant needs of the residents, but also those that arose from the disasters. No abolition, merging of school departments.
– Tax-free limit for small professionals at 12,000 euros. Exemption of payments for 2021 and 2022 of ENFIA, PPC, water supply, telephony, municipal fees, write-off of debts to banks and taxation for all, in the affected areas.
– To change the regulation of ELGA so that the farmers are compensated at 100% of the damage, to include all the causes of damage and diseases. Staffing with the necessary staff and funding from the state budget.
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