Eight years after the drama in Mandra and the tragedy in Mati, the wounds remain open, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a post. He stressed that the struggle of those who survived and the pain of families who lost people, homes, and hopes was a “silent reminder that the state did not do what it should have done.”

As he noted, the government “responds to this unjust and long-standing pending issue” not with words of sympathy, but with acts of substantial support, providing the victims “the same institutional care as that given to the victims of the Tempi accident“, stressing that “solidarity should not be discriminatory”.

As the prime minister also noted, the families of those who perished, the injured, and the injured will henceforth receive a special pension of 1,700 euros. At the same time, “the compensation that has been awarded to them” will be “shielded”, without asterisks or exceptions, while all their debts to the tax authorities, insurance funds, and local government will be cancelled.

The Prime Minister added that health care and psychological support for the affected people “become the State’s business”. Although “nothing can change what has happened”, the State, he says, must, along with the recovery of the State, “relieve, as much as possible, the traumas left behind by such tragedies“.

“Our minimum duty is to constantly help and never forget,” the prime minister concluded in his post.

In detail the post of Kyriakos Mitsotakis

“Eight years after the drama in Mandra and the tragedy in Mati that followed, the wounds have not healed. The struggle of those who survived, physically and mentally injured, and the pain of those who lost loved ones along with their homes and hopes, remained a silent reminder that the State did not do as much as it should have done.

Today, the government is responding to this unjust and long-standing pending issue. Not with easy words of sympathy. But with acts of meaningful support. By providing the victims with the same institutional care as that provided to the victims of the Tempi accident. Because solidarity must not be discriminatory.

Thus, from now on, the families of those lost, injured, and burned will receive a special pension of 1,700 euros. The compensation they have been awarded is also being shielded. No asterisks and no exceptions. And all their debts to the tax office, the social security funds, and the local government are cancelled.

At the same time, their health coverage as well as their psychological support becomes the responsibility of the State. Nothing, unfortunately, can change what has happened. The State, however, at the same time as the State’s recovery, must also alleviate, as far as possible, the traumas left behind by such tragedies.

Our minimum duty is to constantly help and never forget.”