Flags on Neuralgia they were half wave. The municipality has declared three days of mourning. Outside the church, the family handed out white roses and gift-boxed confetti. OUR Efstathios Tsitlakidis he did not get married. OUR funeral of 31-year-old squadron commanderwhose promotion to the honorary rank of Vice-Captain was accepted on the recommendation of Konstantinos Floros, Chief of the General Staff of National Defense, took place yesterday at noon at the Church of the Great Brigadiers in Granite, Drama.

“You were never an ordinary person,” the late captain’s brother said at his funeral, “you were always a hero.” “You showed us the way here, to the village of Nevrokopi, you proved what the ideals and values ​​of our homeland are,” he added. “Today,” his brother continued, “we honor the will and tireless effort to achieve what is desired by any means.”

“High, high, high head,” said the mother of Efstathios Tsytlakides as his family walked to the church, their eyes turned to the sky, which her son served to the end. The bride of the deceased arrived at the church in support, holding a photograph of the flock in her hands.

With the words “you have always been a hero,” his brother said goodbye to the 31-year-old Phantom pilot.

During the transfer of the body of 31-year-old Tsitlakidis to the church, the procession was led by his friend and associate, the man who was supposed to marry him, holding a sword and a hilt.

The funeral was attended by the President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Minister of National Defense Nikos Panagiotopoulos, the head of the National Security Agency Konstantinos Floros, the SYRIZA delegation consisting of the head of the National Defense Department Theodoris Drita, the former head of the National Security Agency Christos Christodoulou and the head of the Ministry of Justice Theophilos Xanthopoulos, and Hellenic Solution President Kyriakos Velopoulos. In addition to the three days of mourning, the municipality of Nevrokopi decided to give the surname “Tsitlakidis” to the central street of the city or to a large municipal building.

Like Marios-Michael Turoutsikas on Thursday at the Holy Church of the Prophet Elijah in Tripoli, Efstathios Tsitlakidis was also buried with the honors of vice-captain, with the families of both receiving all food as if they had retired as vice-captains alive. . In the meantime, a conclusion is expected about the causes of the tragic fall of the F4 Phantom.