Premiere of apologies today (18/12) in the trial for the deadly fire in Eye in the second degree. The first to give explanations is the resident of Dau Pentelis from whose plot the fire started. Court of first instance he was sentenced to 3 years in prison redeemable for 10 euros per day.

According to ERT, in the second degree as well as in the first instance he refuses that he was burning dry grass and claims that the fire started from somewhere else. He admits that he had, as he says, some dry branches left that the Municipality of Penteli had not taken at the end of June 2018, nor that after the fire he had moved them to distract the investigations.

Yes, he declares responsible and meticulous every year for the work to be done during the fire season. Of course he accepted rain of questions both by the president and by the prosecutor of the headquarters, but also by the delegates as well there are witnesses in the case file who point to him as the person responsible for the fire that started with these tragic consequences and their tragic toll 104 dead and dozens of burns.

The second defendant has been apologizing for some time now, the former mayor of Penteli, Dimitris Stergiou – Kapsalis who also pleads not guilty while he was also acquitted at first instance. His innocence is presumed, as he claims, from the fact that the fire which started from Penteli successfully dealt with.

The trial will be adjourned for the holidays and resume on January 7, when he is expected to plead guilty the then chief of the Fire Department Sotiris Terzoudis.