The Piraeus public prosecutor’s office brought criminal proceedings against 8 adults from Kazakhstan for the fire in Hydra, with the charge of moral arson.
The Piraeus public prosecutor’s office brought criminal proceedings against 8 adults from Kazakhstan for the fire in Hydra with the charge of moral complicity for arson.
The assistance of the Kazakh authorities has also reportedly been sought.
These are the passengers of the yacht (among the two children who were not prosecuted) that last Friday night was docked in the bay where a fire broke out, after the use of flares. The Kazakhs returned on Saturday morning to Vouliagmeni, and then left for their country without being examined as witnesses. Competent officials who have seen the passenger list of the boat report that among them are powerful Kazakh businessmen from the entourage of the former president of the country, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who in 2022 was forced to leave Kazakhstan with his family.
The captain and the lieutenant are in custody
It is recalled that in the early hours of Thursday the captain and the lieutenant of the yacht were deemed remand , although they said they had nothing to do with setting off the fireworks. In fact, they claimed that they did not realize what happened in the bay where they had anchored. However, the investigator and prosecutor were not convinced by what they said. The remaining 11 crew members were released on bail.
Fire officials went to the cove where the fire broke out and found firecracker debris. These findings reinforce the estimates that the fire was started by fireworks, which, however, did not fall from the yacht, but were set off by people who had left it, and had gone to the beach with the auxiliary boat, from where the fireworks were set off in context of a party.
Under the microscope the manipulations of the Authorities
At the same time, the manipulations of the local Fire and Coast Guard forces come under the microscope of the “corrupt” ELAS, with the Piraeus Public Prosecutor’s Office ordering an investigation.
The investigation was undertaken by the Internal Affairs service of ELAS, with its elements being asked to investigate the procedures followed by the two bodies above were the appropriate ones.
Source: Skai
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