In the duties of specific defendants, based on the position and powers that each of them had when fire engulfed the eyeleaving behind a hundred dead, Andrianos Gurbatsis, technical adviser for fire victims, deputy general fire department, said during today’s second day of his testimony.

The witness, answering the questions of the defenders of the victims, referred to specific persons who, due to their share of responsibility, were either inactive or did not react properly on the afternoon of July 23, 2018, when the fire broke out in Dau Pentelis. did not figure it out right away.

The position of the witness, similar to the position of the prosecutor’s expert, Dimitris Liotsiosconsists in the fact that it was necessary to assess the situation and give an order for the preventive evacuation of citizens before 17.30, when the fire had not yet split into two fronts.

A. Gurbatsis, answering the relevant question of the lawyer in support of the class cited two cases of evacuation, the first she in California, USAA, a few months after the Eye, and the second she in Psachna on the island of Evia in August 2019, when about 300 villagers were taken away by bus, led by the then-defendant Vassilis Mattaiopoulos of the fire department..

Referring to the accused, who was the deputy chief of operations at the time of the fire in Mati, the victim’s expert said that “Mr.

He also referred to the then ESKE commander Giannis Fostieris, stating that “he should have mobilized Mechanism 199 immediately”. He emphasized that “the first task of the fire department is to rescue people and then put out the fire or at the same time. Here the world was not saved…”.

The witness reiterated that the fire brigade should have responded immediately to Pentelis’ Dhow in order to contain the fire, and indicated that “I believe that the risk was not properly assessed and air and ground forces were not mobilized.” He also said that no airports were closed due to weather conditions that day and that air assets were available to fight the fire.

In response to a question about the actions of the accused, the then mayor of Penteli Dimitris-Stergiou Kapsalis, the lieutenant general said that he was late with the notification of the fire, and mentioned that the accused, “according to rumors, is the best man with a resident of the city of the district, as well as those accused in the case to which the fire is attributed. The witness said that for this reason, “there was probably a delay in informing Mayor Pentelis about the fire. First he mobilized his vehicles. He never called the fire department, there is no record of such a call … After 5 hours, he called and informed Mr. Tosca.

He also added that the municipality did not clean the streams.

Accordingly, when asked about the accused mayor of Rafina-Pikermiou, Evangelos Burnos, Mr. Gurbatsis said: “I heard him give an interview and say that the fire is heading towards Dionysus, to the north, and that it will not reach Mati. . How can he decide on an organized evacuation after he had a different idea about the direction of the fire?

The witness testified that an administrative jury examination was never ordered about what happened in Mati, and that in general there was never any investigation of any fire.

“Since the leader was involved in this case, the investigation could have been entrusted to Mr. Toscas or TO. Gerovasili from the Inspector General of Public Administration. i did mIMrs Gerovasili’s report that an investigation should be carried out. That did not happen“, He said.

The expert’s testimony continues on Monday, April 24.

Source: RES-IPE

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