The head of the Prosecutor’s Office of Heraklion ordered a preliminary investigation to clarify the circumstances of the accident and the liability and negligence on the part of those responsible for the fall of a tree on the city’s central traffic light, which killed 51 people. -year old man.

According to cretalive.gr, the police have already called three eyewitnesses to testify.

One of the three children of the unfortunate man also went to the scene of the accident. “We can’t believe what happened. It’s unbelievable,” he told cretapost.gr, stressing at the same time that the family was ready to sue those responsible.

The funeral of the unfortunate 51-year-old man will take place today at 16:00.

How did the tragic incident happen?

At 6:10 p.m. Thursday, as the 51-year-old man stood in his two-wheeler at the traffic lights on Demokratia Avenue, at the height of the Cretan oven, waiting for the green light to continue on to Heraklion.

Suddenly, a huge pine tree behind the stove collapsed, blocking both streams of the avenue. A pine fell onto a motorcycle and pinched a 51-year-old man who died.

Mayor of Heraklion: We will do everything to identify the causes

“We will do everything to establish the causes of the accident,” said the mayor of Heraklion, Vassilis Lambrinos.

Mr. Lambrinos expressed his condolences to the family of the 51-year-old man, stressing that “it is inconceivable that a person should lose his life in such an unjust way.”

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