Her individual stories tragedy in the Eye they unfolded before him even today Three-member Misdemeanor Appeal Court where they report victims of the fiery inferno that consumed the area in July 2018.

In the court they testified six witnesses, relatives of people who did not manage to save themselves from the fire and were either charred or drowned in the sea who fled full of burns from the thermal load that enveloped the Eye.

And from today’s depositions, her responsibilities were highlighted Fire department but also her Police which, according to what is heard in court, created a suffocating situation within the settlement, channeling all vehicles into the streets of Matiou. And today, “fatal mistakes” were highlighted in court, the complete absence of informing the citizens about the course of the fire and the safe escape routes, but also the complete absence of any help from the competent services.

The witnesses, relatives of people who perished in their attempt to escape from the fiery inferno, referred to the lack of information and help from the competent bodies.

“The fire caught up with us on the steps before the beach” testified a woman, a resident of Mati, who lost her 93-year-old mother in the sea, where for many hours she was at sea alone and her daughter without help until she was rescued in the evening by Egyptian fishermen.

“The child was screaming for help, but the grandmother left in her arms… she was trying to keep her afloat but she couldn’t and she went to the bottom. Then he began to swim, but he did not know which way he should swim. In the middle of the night, she was going to Kea and Egyptian fishermen happened to be passing by, completely by chance and with the lens they found her from her voices”, said the woman, explaining that the government agencies were absent. The witness said that on the beach “we saw the little girl of the Fitrou family jumping on the rocks because she couldn’t see because of the smoke”.

In his own testimony, Konstantinos Tournavitis who lost his brother and sister-in-law, actor Chrysa Spiliotis, in the Fragou estate, described as “unthinkable” the decision of the Fire Department to transfer forces from Eastern Attica, “from a forest residential area” and deploy them in Kinetta. The witness’s sister, Maria Tournaviti, said in her testimony that the Fire Department also has a role in evacuation cases. “During the big fires of 1997 in Penteli, a fireman entered the yard and told us “leave the front doors open, tires visible and leave”.. In Mati nothing”.

The wrong management of traffic by the Police was pointed out in his testimony by the witness Stylianos Mashas who lost both his parents in the fire. “They didn’t know how to direct people and they were sending them into Mati,” said the witness who emphasized that the police “appeared after the fire. They collected my mother’s spine and a piece of my father’s chest. That’s all they did. There was no state, no police, no fire department. They were sitting in Marathon and smoking. There were people who saw their houses burning from the inside and they were looking at them. No one cared about anyone…”.