“We begin with mourning, with sadness, with terrible losses and terrible questions“, emphasized the president of Freedom of Navigation, Zoe Konstantopoulou during the protología at Parliament in the context of the fire debate.

Mrs. Konstantopoulou, also referring to the previous disasters that hit her country since 2007, spoke of “chronic indifference, sloppiness, imprudence” and for “years of incompetence and corruption” where “they don’t just undermine the future of the country” but “they kill». “They have victims of people, forests, animals, human communities, human expectations and our entire future”, he said, underlining the need to “say what is the reality: that our country burned again because you have never been punished for all the previous ones times it burned».

He also spoke of “self-governing, political and governmental responsibilities”, accusing the government of again choosing to manage the tragedy with “communication media” and the prime minister himself for avoiding an “apology” and not proceeding “to a serious acceptance of responsibility and an equally serious accountability».

In addition, he referred in detail to specific persons who held positions of responsibility when the fatal fire occurred in Mati, abandoning the ND government that not only did not “fire” them but upgraded them.

In closing, the president of Freedom of Navigation additionally tabled ten proposals, among which the permanency of the Fire Department and seasonal staff, the increase of the civil protection budget for the Fire Department’s equipment, the activation of the abandoned fire pits, the holding of an inquiry in the Parliament for the timeless crimes of fires.