The occupation of the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection is turning into a thriller, as a seasonal firefighter threatened to kill himself if the MAT intervened, after the deadline given to evacuate the building had expired. The seasonal fireman was asking for the MAT to leave and for Minister Vassilis Kikilias to come. Finally, with the intervention of his colleagues, he calmed down and the worst was avoided.

With a motto “Disasters are not seasonal“, their main request to the leadership of the ministry is to be recruited to fill some of the 4,000 vacancies that exist in the Fire Department, according to what they report. At the same time, they request a meeting with the minister.

Ministry

From early on, they said that they would remain at the ministry until tomorrow if their demands were not met, while some even set up counter-tents to spend the night there.

Firefighters

Earlier, they were given a deadline of one hour to leave the building, but they say they are adamant. MAT forces who had gathered outside the ministry are now inside the ministry as the term has expired.

Firefighters

Firefighters

Kikilias: Next week the meeting

Vassilis Kikilias announced that next week he will meet with them to discuss their requests.

“As I promised, after the end of the fire fighting I will hold a meeting with the representatives of the seasonal contract firefighters. And this is what I will do next Wednesday 6/11.

At the meeting, we will thoroughly discuss their needs, concerns and concerns, before proceeding to the tender, within the framework of Presidential Decree 36/2019, which, as everyone knows, was passed in 2019 during the SYRIZA government,” said the minister.