Data on targeted control over the circulation and use of illegal rockets, firecrackers and other pyrotechnics during Easter was presented by the Greek police.

“The purpose of control, in addition to compliance with the law, is to prevent and prevent accidents that pose a risk of serious injury and death of people from the ignition of pyrotechnic products during the festive season,” notes EL.AS.

At the same time, during the period of the Easter holidays (from April 3 to April 17), a total of 21,197 checks were carried out, 59 violations were confirmed and 69 people were detained. At the same time, 312,226 pyrotechnic products were seized, namely:

155,936 firecrackers,
137 852 children’s toys,
1531 homemade pyrotechnic device,
1427 fireworks,
189 missiles,
91 missiles,
5 launchers and
15,195 other pyrotechnics.

Illustrative cases:

15-04-2023: Improvised rockets found and confiscated on the island of Chios.
04/14/2023: A citizen is arrested in the region of Evia for violating the law on flares and fireworks.
04/14/2023: Two national defendants arrested for violating flares, fireworks, flares and child safety gate laws.
14-04-2023: -92,532 sparklers-firecrackers-dynamite were seized in Sofades Karditsa.
13-04-2023: Arrests by the Peania Security Department and the Anti-Trafficking Unit of the Athens Police Department in Gerakas and Piraeus.
12/04/2023: Two people were arrested during intensive checks carried out in the run-up to the Easter holidays in places where fireworks are made, sold, sold and used.
09/04/2023: Local defendant detained for violating Bengal lights and fireworks legislation
06/04/2023: Four people arrested for illegally selling sparklers and firecrackers through a social network.

Minor injuries and more

Several cases of injury sparklers were also celebrated this year.

Three children from Rhodes, Agistri And Symi were seriously injured by firecrackers that fell after “Christ is Risen” on the night of the Resurrection, while still four men were injured V Leonidas of Arcadiain their attempt to light sparklers.

According to ERT, a 27-year-old man transferred from Leonidio has been in the hospital since the night before yesterday, including with serious injuries.

A 27-year-old man is intubated in the intensive care unit of a hospital with flapper wounds to his neck and cervix.

In the Nursery “Agia Sophia” 9-year-old

13 year old boy from Symiwho suffered a partial amputation of the fingers on his right hand and a facial injury from a firecracker.

A 9-year-old refugee boy with an incomplete amputation of a finger and a bruise on his palm was also delivered to Agia Sophia by private transport. The child was taken from Pylos after he was hit by a firecracker.

In the same hospital, shortly after the Resurrection, a 14-year-old boy from Fishing hook. The child received multiple firecracker burns, amputation of the fingers of the left upper limb and injury of the right upper limb. A 14-year-old boy has undergone surgery and is being treated at the hospital’s plastic surgery department. The operation went well, the rest of the child is healthy.

She was taken to the hospital with burns. Rhodes 7 year old girl. He was injured in a rocket explosion in the village of Malona.