A request for an emergency convergence of a Special Standing Committee on Institutions and Transparency for the Citizen’s Ombudsman’s findings on the Pylos shipwreck, the chairman of the new leftist parliamentary group, Alexis Haritsis, the Secretary of the Commissioner, and the Secretary of the Commission .

In a letter to the Chairman of the House of Institutions and Transparency of the House Athanasios Boura, the new Left calls for her convening in order to invite the Ombudsman Andreas Pottakis.

The letter references to the finding of the Ombudsman in which “a series of serious and explicit omissions are stated in the duties of investigating and rescue by senior Coast Guard-Greek Coast Guard officers, which constitute clear indications of the constitution of the Greek exhibition. Exposure to the risk of life, health and physical integrity of the occupants in the Fisheries Adriana (…) during the management of the incident on 13th and 14th June 2023. “

“The citizen’s lawyer points out an organized attempt to conceal, as” critical evidence was not disclosed at the beginning “: the cameras recording material was not delivered because they were” out of service “. Critical talks were not delivered “why they were not digitally recorded”. Following the publication of the finding, the Ministry of Maritime and Island Policy chose to make an unprecedented attack on the Ombudsman accusing him of “unreliable documentation!” Tsanakopoulos.

“As a new Left we share the position that the transparency of administrative action and the rendering of responsibility, where they exist, is an elementary right -wing request for the multi -day wreck of Pylos, inextricably linked to respect for the rule of law. On the basis of the above, we are calling for the convening of an Extraordinary Committee of Institutions and Transparency in order to invite the Ombudsman Mr. Andreas Potakis and to discuss the recent finding of the Independent Authority on the Pylos shipwreck, “the signatories said.