The suffering of the relatives of the victims was followed yesterday in court on the centenary of those who died from the murder fire in the eyes her indictment Zois Constantinopoulou, which spoke of “covering up the crime.” Before Mrs. Constantinopooulou’s testimony, another Irish citizen of Hellfire who came to our country on her honeymoon and lost her husband in a biblical catastrophe spoke of her personal tragedy.

Irish descent Maria Zoe Holohan she reported, crying, that on the afternoon of July 23, 2018, they arrived for their honeymoon with her husband at a villa in Rafina. The witness described how they were surrounded by fire in the house where they lived, and that they left in a hurry, taking only their passports and wedding rings with them. On the way to escape, according to his testimony, they met four or five children who were alone and took them in their arms to help them. “We kept running. The car appeared out of nowhere like a ghost. There were three people inside. We stopped it. They settled the children, but we did not find a place. I asked him to open the trunk. My whole body and Brian’s clothes were on fire. The car suddenly collided with a tree and fell on us. My husband fell out of the car into the fire. I knew immediately that he was dead,” she sobbed, and then described her own Golgotha. He miraculously escaped thanks to a volunteer firefighter. “My face began to melt and I sat and waited for my death,” she added, referring to all the difficult and painful positions she held in nursing homes in Greece and Ireland, at one point reaching the point where she no longer wanted to live. .

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For her part, Zoe Konstantinopoulou spoke of a “violent attempt to reduce the real scale of the crime” and also described a meeting that took place on the night of the deadly fire at the Fire Coordination Center with the participation of then Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. as “staged”. “There were the dead, whom the living knew. The absolute silence reflects an attempt to cover up the crime,” he stressed and added: “Over the corpses and lives of those who rejoiced, they heard the prime minister say what he said. And people don’t die in war like they do in the Oka. In war, even a siren sounds. And then there was an attempt to blame the residents,” the witness said.

It is expected that in the near future the testimony of other persons will be presented at the trial, in addition to the relatives of the victims and dozens of burn victims, who shocked all of Greece with their pain for the losses and the tragedy they experienced. However, the court “launches” the process, and every day the testimony replaces each other, causing goosebumps of emotions and waves of anger for the absolute lack of measures that led to a hundred deaths.