The decision on the guilt of the 21 defendants in the trial for the deadly fire in Mati was announced a short while ago by the Athens Trial Court after a long hearing. In total the court found 6 of the 21 defendants guilty with relatives of the victims in the courtroom shouting “Bravo, bravo, you have lost a child”, the relatives of the victims shouted.
Specifically in its decision the court followed the prosecution’s proposal and declared guilty Sotiris Terzoudis then chief of the Fire Brigade (manslaughter by negligence and bodily harm by negligence for the helicopter diversion) Vassilis Mattheopoulos then deputy chief (manslaughter by negligence for the death of 9 people at sea), Ioannis Fostieris then head of ESKE (manslaughter by negligence) Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos then Commander of the Athens Fire Services (manslaughter by negligence for 102 people, bodily injury by negligence of 32 people), Charalambos Chionis then Commander of the Fire Services of Eastern Attica (manslaughter by negligence for 102 people, bodily injury by negligence of 32 people) and Konstantinos Angelopoulos, a resident from whose yard the fire started.
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The fire brigade officers Christos Golfinos, Philippos Panteleakos, Damianos Papadopoulos, Christos Lambris, Christos Drosopoulos, Georgios Portozoudis and Stefanos Kolokouris were found not guilty, the then ELAS Airborne Officer Charalambos Syrogiannis, the then Secretary General of Civil Protection Ioannis Kapakis, the then Regional Governor of Attica Rena Dourou and the then Mayors of Marathon Elias Psinakis and Penteli Dimitrios-Stergios Kapsalis.
Found not guilty, despite the contrary prosecution proposal, were Vaios Thanasias then deputy mayor of the municipality of Marathon, Evangelos Bournous then mayor of Rafina-Pikermio, Antonis Palpatzi then deputy mayor of Rafina-Pikermio.
