The most sincere condolences to the families of the victims and the support of the government to the citizens who were tested and continue to be tested, expressed the government representative Pavlos Marinakis. In an interview with ERT he emphasized that “in an unprecedented phenomenon that has not been recorded before in history as the scientists say. What our fellow citizens went through and continue to go through is unprecedented, people who have been struggling for many hours and continue to struggle, were tested under very difficult conditions.”

With regard to the support measures, he noted that “as happened in the previous cases of a very small extent, this will also happen now, it is a personal commitment of the Prime Minister, no one will be left helpless, measures of temporary and comprehensive support and rehabilitation of all the damages whether it concerns infrastructure, whether it concerns roads, whether it concerns bridges, whether it concerns agricultural lands, compensation for professionals. This is what the state owes, the state must do, it is something very difficult, it is something very important and it will happen.”