What happened on the afternoon of July 23, 2028 in East Attica with a fire that started in Dow Pentelis and ended up in the wake of the eye? How 93 people were burned, how they drowned nine in the sea, where they fled to save from ‘Fire Hell’;

They were done at the level of prevention, operational action to deal with the fire and management of the situation as it was formed, all appropriate actions or the tragic development was inevitable and each person did ‘The humanly possible’as heard in the courtroom during the apologies?

Did the Court of First Instance, which did not take responsibility for 15 of the 21 defendants for the Eye Tragedy?

Her answers, the valuation of all the elements of the tragedy, as in the case file and on those offered during the many months of hearing, will develop today with the speech ofthe prosecutor of the headquarters of the three -member Court of Appeals.

An speech that, although not binding, is expected with great interest by both the 21 defendants and the victims of the deadliest fire experienced by the country and by society.

People who have experienced scenes of horror, pain, and untold disaster from one moment to another have asked all citizens to stand on their side today at this special moment in the last trial of the tragedy in Eye.

Seven years after the day that marked their lives forever, they called on society to be close to them in the final line in their struggle to justify the 104 dead and their dozens of burns.

Today, eight months from the start of the trial in the second instance, the Prosecutor of the Secondary Court of Justice, It will formulate the judgment, its legal evaluation of the “how and why” of the case. He will respond to the issues raised by the prosecution’s appeal against the verdict of the judges of the Primary Court for both the fifteen acquittals and the amount of the penalties he imposed on five of the convicts, former firefighters.

The Court has given today’s and tomorrow’s meeting at the disposal of the prosecutor, so that it has time to fully develop the rationale that will lead her to the “by the way” of her proposal for the guilt or not of whom, by the defendants, then firefighters, then civil protection.

The public prosecutor’s legal answers for acts and omissions attributed to the category, for the role of each defendants and how he influenced what I was in the eye, his acceptance or not in the position of the accused that under the specific specific conditions and the means they had, they would be “right”.

The charges, the defendants and the prosecutor’s appeal

The Three -Member Court of Appeals has deemed the case from the outset as it is called upon, after appeal by the prosecutor to the first -instance ruling, to reassess the unanimous acquittals for fifteen defendants, as well as the amount of sentences for five convicts.

The resident of Dow is tried by his own appeal with the sake of reducing his sentence, as he was not brought against the first -instance judgment, in the part concerning him, a prosecutor’s appeal.

The accusations charged twenty, then the staff of the competent services and bodies, concern 102 homicides of negligence, including the nine people who drowned in the sea in their attempt to escape hell. At the same time, they also involve 32 bodily harm to negligence over the injured, survivors of the disaster who attend the trial.

The Court of First Instance in its ruling, which has received strong reactions inside and outside the courtroom, He judged by six of the 21 defendants and unanimously innocent of the other fifteen.

Fire chiefs and executives Sotiris Terzoudis, Vassilis Matthaiopoulos, Ioannis Fostieris, Nikos Panagiotopoulos and Charalambos Chionis were guilty, in which the final sentence was sentenced to five years. The resident of Dow was also found guilty, from the courtyard of which the fire began, who was sentenced to 3 years.

The Court of First Instance was acquitted by fire officials Christos Golfino, Philip Panteleakos, Damianos Papadopoulos, Christos Lambri, Christos Drosopoulos, Georgios Portozoudi and Stefanos Kolokouri.

He also acquitted the then Officer in the Aerial Media of ELAS Charalambos Syrogiannis, the then Secretary General of Civil Protection Ioannis Kapakis, the then Attica Regional Governor Rena Dourou and the then Marathon Mayors Elias Psinakis, Pentelis Dimitrios (Marathon) and Antonis Palpatzis (Rafina Pikermi).