Entering the courtroom yesterday morning where the case for Eye you could hear it crystal clear. Persistent meow. There’s a cat stuck somewhere. Together with the policeman, we tried to determine exactly where. We followed the sound to the mezzanine, in an area that looked like a construction site next to its galleries. courtroom. His master Court of Appeal he approached, climbed the stairs to the top of the room where the mewing came from, and came to the conclusion that he must have fallen into the vent. “Only the fire department can take it out,” we agreed.

We called 199 and indeed, in a short time, three firefighters arrived at the ships. They had to pass through the room where the meeting had already begun, and were surprised to see, until recently, the leadership of the Chamber, as well as some acting senior officers, sitting in the dock. While Dimitris Liotsios, an expert on the case, answered questions from their lawyers. But his testimony was overshadowed by the cat’s meow. Three firefighters went to the scene, they also went up to the balcony with their equipment, but after about 15 minutes they came to the conclusion that it was impossible to save her.

“The pipe will have to be cut,” they explained to us at the exit. However, no one had access to the room where a particular pipe ended. It was locked, and no one at the Court of Appeal knew where the keys were. There was a countdown for the cat, because at the end of the session, the ward would be empty and closed.

Three women from Mati, who were watching the process, wanted to try to save her. Dina Bulumbassi, Tina Collarow and Katerina Chrysantopoulou bought two canned cats and climbed onto the balcony with them. Together with a net tied to a pole, they hoped the cat would hit it.

An ally in this case, in the attic, is the appellant Aikaterini Papadimitropoulou, a member of the administration of the council of three. “Come, and you will be the talisman of the court,” he affectionately said to the cat.

Alma Libre

After an hour of persistent but fruitless efforts, we called Alma Libre, a volunteer organization that has saved more than 1,600 animals in the past two years. The specific mission was undertaken by Vangelis Sinodinos, who is a construction worker and would have experience if he needed to cut a pipe with a wheel. Half an hour later he reached the Court of Appeal.

He went up to the attic, lay down—almost hovering—over the pipe, and when he made contact with the cat, tried to catch it with a four-meter rope with a double-handled noose. At 14.45 I took the kitten out of the tube. “This is a female, no more than 50 days old, completely dehydrated. He must have been trapped for at least two days,” he told us as he handed it to us.

Tina Collarow, who took it upon herself to take him to the vet, also gave him his name: “Mataki.” He held it in his hands as he passed through the room where he still gathered. “Since you’ve heard about it for so long, we brought it to you to watch,” he said. “Who pulled it out?” asked one of the passers-by. “At least not to the fire department,” she said.