The intervention of the Criminal Prosecutor’s Office of Larisa caused two strands of the effects of the flooding phenomena in the region that are directly related to the defense of public health, when, from the very next days, the prosecutors of Thessaly will undertake the investigation of what is included in the order of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Georgia Adelini.

The first part of the interventions at the local level concerns in the pollution of Pinios from the non-functioning of the Biological Treatment Plants of Larissawithout yet having answered the question of whether the Biological Clean-ups of other cities of Western Thessaly are working and the second part concerns the competence of the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine of the Region of Thessaly for the safe for public health, without “obligation or procrastination”, the management of dead animals who were killed by the floods.

According to information from the “Eleftheria” newspaper, the Criminal Prosecutor of Larisa yesterday ordered an urgent preliminary investigation, in order to investigate the pollution of the Pinios river due to the non-operation of the Biological Treatment Plants of Larissa, Mandra and Giannouli.

As announced by the Municipality of Larissa, “the intense flooding phenomena in the wider area of ​​Thessaly have put out of operation all the Biological Cleaning of the affected Municipalities. As of last Friday, September 8, the Biological Cleaning of Larissa, Giannouli and Mandra has also been shut down.

The Department of Environment of the Region of Thessaly has been informed about this matter. The biological purification pumping stations and the sewage network in the city of Larissa are operating normally.

The incoming sewage ends up from the sewerage network together with the flood waters in Pinios”.

A matter for which the Municipality of Larissa cooperates with the general secretary of Waste Management of the Ministry of the Environment, Man. Grafakos, who once again visited the Biological of Larissa together with the mayor, Ap. Kalogiannis, while yesterday he was expected to visit other Biological Cleanings of the West. Thessaly, in order to examine the situation there.

The second intervention refers to a document from the head of the Larissa Criminal Prosecutor’s Office, Rep. Tzamali, to the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine of the Region of Thessaly, regarding the catastrophic effects of the flood phenomena on livestock and the safety of public health management of dead animals.

The Directorate of Veterinary Medicine, as having the responsibility, is called without delay and as an absolute priority to carry out checks on the units and to act for the safe management of the dead animals. It is noted that the Thessaly Region is speeding up the management of the situation of the dead animals after the restoration of the road connection with the animal by-products management unit in the Industrial Area of ​​Larissa.

Eleftheria Newspaper / Vangelis Kakaras