Fire in the Eye: Five accused of a crime – What the parliament says

The panel of the Council of Criminal Procedures brought to light by “K” and kathimerini.gr is a particularly important development for the people who lived dramatic hours in the fire in Mati and the relatives of the 102 victims. For investigator Athanasios Marneris, who has been investigating the case in depth for two years, it is to some extent a justification. The members of the Council, chaired by George Kasimis, rapporteur Theodora Traianidou and third member Niki Revythi, examined the mistakes, omissions and operational actions of the 27 people who played a key role in dealing with the fire. In their 300-page panel, they adopt the proposal of investigator Marneris that the evidence justifies the evidence of a crime for five of the accused. Specifically, for Sotirios Terzoudis (then Chief of Operations of the Fire Brigade), Vassilios Mattheopoulos (then Deputy Chief of Operations), Ioannis Fostieris (then Commander of ESKE), Georgios Portozoudis (then Commander of YEMPSK) .

The first three on the day of the fire were in the coordination center. According to the committee, although they knew from 16.41 that the fire had started in Daou Pentelis in a residential area and people were in danger, they were sending or diverting air means to fires where they knew that there was no danger to life. The fourth defendant, George Portozoudis, as commander of the air force, had at his disposal two helicopters that could assist in extinguishing and rescuing civilians. However, they remained stuck in “El. Venizelos “. While at the time of the fire he was guiding a woman to the premises of the service and then they went for coffee in the airport cafeteria. Finally, Stefanos Kolokouris (later leader of the corps) was in Kineta and while he had been ordered at 17.00 to go to Mati in order to assist in a rescue operation, he was found by GPS that he never went. He remained unjustifiably immobilized on the beach of Kineta until 21.00.

The Council concludes that on the basis of all the evidence in the case file, these five defendants have serious evidence of a “criminal act of the serial report that caused the death of 102 victims” and not of the negligent homicide proposed by the prosecutor. For 12 defendants (among them the former governor Rena Dourou, the then mayors Elias Psinakis and Evangelos Bournous and the former secretary general of Civil Protection Giannis Kapakis) the Council ruled that they committed “misdemeanors of negligent and negligent homicide. in a row “. That is, they are referred to trial for misdemeanor as proposed by the prosecutor. While for 10 defendants (mainly Firefighters, police or regional councilors) the Council ruled that there was no evidence of guilt and it is proposed that they be acquitted.

The case file now goes back to investigator Marneris. He will forward it to the competent prosecutor, who will be called to prosecute in accordance with the operative part of the parliament. The next step is for the investigator to immediately summon the five defendants – within a few days – for additional apologies. This time as accused of a felony.

More specifically, according to the committee:

– Terzoudis Sotirios, Mattheopoulos Vassilios, Fostieris Ioannis, Portozoudis Georgios and Kolokouris Stefanos, the investigation will continue for the crime of the deadly report which is a crime.

– Golfinos Christos, Panteleakos Filippos, Papadopoulos Damianos, Panagiotopoulos Nikolaos, Chionis Charalambos, Lampris Christos, Drossopoulos Christos, Syrogiannis Charalambos, Kapakis Ioannis, Dourou Irini, Psimonakis para. negligent bodily harm.

– For Maria Xylagoura, Diamanti Pomaki, Ioannis Stamouli, Christos Papazafiri, Konstantinos Voutsela, Anargyros
Bakaloni, Ioanna Tsoupra, Vaios Thanasia, Antoniou Palpatzis and Dimitrios Stergiou-Kapsali showed no signs of guilt and are acquitted.

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