2024-05-02 15:51:11
Six years after the devastating fire that swept through Mati, the Court issued the first instance decision for the 21 people who sat on the bench.
A total of six defendants were found guilty. The court found guilty Sotiris Terzoudis, then chief of the Fire Department (negligent homicide and negligent bodily harm for the diversion of a helicopter), Vassilis Matthaiopoulos, then deputy chief (negligent homicide for the death of 9 people at sea), Ioannis Fostieris, then head of ESKE (homicide by negligence) Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos then Commander of the Athens Fire Services (manslaughter by negligence for 102 people, bodily harm by negligence of 32 people), Charalambos Chioni then Commander of the Fire Services of Eastern Attica (homicide by negligence by 102 people, bodily harm by negligence of 32 people) and Konstantinos Angelopoulos, a resident from whose yard the fire started.
Firefighters Christos Golfinos, Filippos Pandeleakos, Damianos Papadopoulos, Christos Drosopoulos, Georgios Portozoudis and Stefanos Kolokouris, the then officer in the Aerial Media of ELAS Charalambos Syrogiannis, the then general secretary of Civil Protection Ioannis Kapaki were found not guilty s, the then regional governor Attica Rena Dourou and the then mayors of Marathon Ilias Psinakis and Pentelis Dimitrios-Stergios Kapsalis.
Vaios Thanasias, then deputy mayor of Marathon municipality, Evangelos Bournos, then mayor of Rafina-Pikermiou, Antonis Palpatzis, then deputy mayor of Rafina-Pikermiou, were found not guilty, despite the prosecutor’s proposal to the contrary.
Relatives reacted strongly as soon as they heard the decision, The prosecutor had recommended the guilt for nine defendants.