The protagonists of the deadliest fire experienced by the country will hear the verdict of the Three -Member Court of Appeals for the fateful afternoon of July 23, 2018.

The president of the court will announce this morning the decision of the Court of Appeals or not the 21 defendants. The court will meet in the Court of Appeals Hall where the victims of the tragedy are calling on citizens to be close to them as they expect justice to be rendered. “Stand with us in the most important victory or defeat of the Greek judiciary” It refers to a statement by the Association of Relative December and Burns.

In the same room, the first -instance ruling had been announced in April 2024 that had caused rage on the victims of tragedy and strong reactions to society and between political parties, as it was considered forgiving.

The Court of First Instance had acquitted 15 defendants while had preached guilty then the head and the executives of the Fire Brigade Sotiris Terzoudi; Santa Claus Matthaiopoulos; John Fostieri; Nikos Panagiotopoulos and Charalambos Chionto whom the final sentence was set In five yearswhich were converted into a fine of 10 euros daily. He had also been guilty of the resident of the courtyard of which the fire began, which imposed a 3 -year sentence.

The Court of Appeal today throws “end titles” In the criminal evaluation of the tragedy, For 11 months he tries the 21 defendants For the hundreds of dead and the injured left by the fire, to answer who is responsible for the people who were completely helpless, for those who drowned in the sea when they fell to be saved from the flames in the water, for those who survived injured, some of whom were seriously injured.

An answer that all those protagonists await in anxiously in the worst nightmare, those who ‘They saw and will never forget’ Horror images, who lost the wealth of their lives: children, partners, parents, siblings, friends.

However, the other protagonists in the case are anxiously awaiting the decision: homicides from negligence and bodily harm from negligence. With them and the man who is being tried to challenge the fire.

All those responsible then, by the Fire Brigade, the Region and the Local Government, who were charged with the dead and the wounded of the wicked Eye, were again tried on a zero basis, as a prosecution against the prosecution against the first -instance court, the mitigating and the amount of sentences for the five convicts.

In addition to the prosecutor’s appeal, he is being tried by his own appeal To reduce the sentence of the citizen who was found guilty of causing the fire.

Except for the resident of Dao Pentelis who can hope for a better sentence, all other defendants are facing, if they are found guilty of great sentences and the possibility of being brought to prison.

The Public Prosecutor: To declare 12 defendants guilty and 9.

The appeals evaluated the enormous material of the case, the evidence from the judicial expertise and the technical reports, the shocking testimonies of the witnesses and the defendants’ positions to rule on the causes and the perpetrators.

They also evaluated the proposal of the prosecutor of the headquarters, Stamatinawho called for preaching 12 of the 21 defendants and innocents the rest of the nine.

In prosecutor’s assessment responsibilities for omissions, delays, bad coordination, etc. who have firmly influenced the tragedy must be attributed to the then heads and executives of the Fire Brigade: John Terzoudi leader, Santa Claus Matthaiopoulos Deputy Chief, John Fostieri EKKE Governor, Christos Golfino Commander 199, Philip Panteleakos Director of Civil Protection Business Center, Damianos Papadopoulos Commander of Nea Makris, First Head of FireNikolaos Panagiotopoulos Athens Administration Commander, 2nd Head of Fire, and Charalambos Hioni East Attica Diocese, Head of Fire.

Also, responsibilities, in the prosecution proposal, must be attributed to the then Secretary General of Civil Protection John Kapakito the then Regional Governor of Attica Rena Dourou and to the then Mayor of Rafina-Pikermi Evangelos Bournousas well as the citizen accused of arson.

Similarly, in innocents, Mrs. Entermenis, four Fire Brigade officials, one then executive at the Police Airprane, should be judged by the then Marathon mayors. Elias Psinakis and Pentelis Dimitris Stergiou-Kapsalis as well as two deputy mayors (Marathon and Rafina).