The tragic mistakes that led to the tragedy in Mati began to be described in the Court of Administrative Offenses, consisting of three people, prosecutor Dimitris Liotsos, who, the day after the deadly fire, received an order from the prosecutor’s office to investigate the circumstances that led to the destruction of July 23, 2018.

Analyzing and recounting the events by the minute, the prosecutor’s expert “unfolded a number of shortcomings in court, a chain of mistakes that, one after another, became that fatal knuckle that hit Mati,” the Athens agency notes.

Complaint against the then fire chief

expressing your opinion, Mr. Liotsos said he was pressured and then threatened by the then fire chiefin order not to attribute responsibility for a hundred dead and instead write “five little things: winds, fuel, anarchic, unauthorized construction.”

For the first time today, a fire brigade officer began to publicly present his findings to the court, on which the investigation by the prosecutor’s office of the causes of the national tragedy was based. Several citizens burst into the room, wanting to hear the testimony of the officer.and today it is especially cold, as there is no heating in the room.

Taking a laptop with him and using the screen in the room to display documents and photos, the fire officer described how the fire in East Attica became one of the deadliest in the world. Analyzing and recalculating events every minute, the expert unfolded a series of omissions, a chain of mistakes that one after another turned into a fatal domino that fell into the Eye.

Omissions

Mr. Liotsos, after an hour and a half of the president listening silently to his findings regarding the Mati fire and the Kinet fire earlier in the day, began his testimony by describing what had not happened before the fire broke out. an extinct fire and those that did not occur when it broke out.

According to the head of the fire department, the march to hell began a day before the fire broke out, when the Unified Operational Coordination Center (ESCO) did not take the prescribed actions due to weather conditions that formed the 4th degree of danger.

“ESKE did not give a timely command for aerial reconnaissance of Attica,” the expert said, and also emphasized that “what did not happen either that day or the day before was the redeployment of aircraft either in Attica or in other areas of Attica.” a country . When we have danger level 4, our strength and readiness increase. In Attica, we had a risk level of 4. The fact that the planes were not re-parked contributed to the spread of the fire. Timely re-parking at suitable airports must be ensured.”

Aircraft Questions

The President asked Mr. Liotsos to explain if the “repositioning” was about refueling the boats, and he replied that it was about moving them to airports that would not be affected by the winds so that they would be ready. “Canard-type aircraft must transfer to other airports so as not to be affected by the wind,” he stressed.