There is no end to the heartbreaking statements of the relatives of the victims who were martyred by murder fire in the eyes, with testimonies describing suffering and hell. “My mother didn’t die, she was killed,” he said in his testimony. Nikos Yiannopoulosdescribing absolute horror. “How many times I went into the house to find her, I couldn’t understand that what I thought was a burnt shower curtain was my mother,” said a witness, while two sisters who lost their father to for thermal burns, Ms. Vasiliki and Marina Lampridouthey talked about what they experienced in those tragic moments.

In particular, testifying in court, Mr. Yiannopoulos blamed the tragedy on the mayor of the district, Evangelos Bournos, who, according to him, misinformed the public, which led to the death of dozens of people, while he was a “catapal”. for the government at the time, saying that he was mocking the world that there were no dead. “At 7:30 p.m., there was a man who saw 30 people burnt,” he said, and referred to his tragic experience when he found his mother burned and received her dead “in a supermarket bag.”

“I don’t know what hell is, but what I saw was 10 times worse,” testified one of the relatives of the victims.

“I don’t know,” the witness said, “what hell is, but what I saw was 10 times worse. Approaching the house I see a car with two burnt inside. I found that the door of the house was broken. I went to the hospital to find her. I tell my wife: “With what I saw in Mati, there are dead people, there were destruction.” He says to me “what are you talking about?”. And he shows me a video with the prime minister and the governor of the region. We were mocked that there were no dead people.”

In her subsequent testimony, Marina Lampridou, who lost her father to Neo Wutz, stressed that there was no information from anyone. “My father was yelling, ‘I’m on fire, I’m in pain,’” a witness said, stating that the Nea Makri Medical Center was unaware of the fire. “Incredible panic and fear. Crows flew from everywhere. We couldn’t see through the smoke, we were blind. My father got into CAT. My mother passed away last September from grief. The cancer has recurred. My father had burns all over his body,” said Marina Lampridou, describing her personal drama.

However, yesterday at the trial it was the annoyance expressed by the civil suit, the lawyers of the victims, that very few of the defendants now appear in court, insulting the relatives of the victims and the survivors by their actions, created a sensation at the court. absence. The court reported the law as a matter of course that they have the option of not appearing and being represented by lawyers, which could mean accepting responsibility for a century of dead and huge losses.