Three of the eight persons who had been tried in a second instance of the tragedy with 25 dead in Mandra from the 2017 floods are re -tried by the three -member Court of Appeal. The offense of homicide by negligence.
Former Mayor Mandra Ioanna Kriekoukis, former Head of the Planning Building Service and the then employee of the Region, responsible for the policing of the streams, are in the dock.
All three had been sentenced by the Court of Appeal to penalties from 14 to 18 months in prison with suspension of the crime of flooding by negligence and had been rid of the accusation of homicide by negligence and bodily damage by negligence. The court had fully relieved five defendants.
The process today began with the deposition of the then Emergency Planning Director Fivos Theodorou. The witness told the court that the phenomenon that was recorded on the day in western Attica was “sudden and unpredictable” and added that the volumes of water that fell “were huge and even drifting trucks”. He also said that there was no recording of the amount of water and added “but when you have over 50mm of rain, you have flooding in half an hour.”
The proceedings are carried out at the expense of the limitation period expiring next November, and is completed 8 years, as set for the offenses for which criminal prosecution has been brought.
Source: Skai
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