With right now's resolution, will probably be seen whether or not the courtroom adopted the prosecutor's reasoning relating to the responsible and the harmless, or whether or not the judges have differed of their evaluation
Six years after the devastating fireplace that swept by way of Mati, the Justice Division will right now give its first reply to the query of “who’s guilty” for the unimaginable tragedy with 104 lifeless.
The Three-member Misdemeanor Courtroom will announce its resolution within the morning for the 21 defendants, then Hearth Division officers, the then regional governor of Attica and the then mayors of the municipalities affected by the fireplace, who after a prosecutorial investigation are on trial for acts and omissions earlier than, throughout and after the fireplace that left behind ache and destruction.
The judges after a course of within the viewers that lasted a few 12 months and a half evaluated the hundreds of pages of fabric, the handfuls of witness statements, a few of them stunning, the positions of the consultants on important points, the apologies of the defendants, the prosecutor's proposal and the positions of the protection attorneys .
Within the conferences that preceded right now's assembly, the judges examined all of the information and each side of the case together with the authorized framework beneath which “the lethal fireplace in Mati” is judged, in order that right now they may announce their judgment on the individuals who had been referred to as to handle a fireplace that became the largest tragedy the nation has skilled in latest a long time.
The Prosecutor's proposal
The courtroom studied the proposal of Prosecutor Panagiotis Maniatis and the authorized reasoning he developed for every defendant and the provisions that outline his powers and scope of motion.
With right now's resolution, will probably be seen whether or not the courtroom adopted the prosecutor's reasoning as to the responsible and the harmless, or whether or not the judges have differed of their evaluation.
If the judges agree with Mr. Maniatis, then 9 defendants will hear “responsible” right now and twelve might be declared harmless.
The general public prosecutor, final February, requested that the next be discovered responsible of manslaughter by serial negligence and by omission in addition to serial bodily hurt:
* Sotiris Terzoudis then chief of the Hearth Division
* Vassilis Matthaiopoulos then deputy chief
* Ioannis Fostieris then head of ESKE
* Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, then Commander of the Athens Hearth Providers
* Charalambos Chionis then Commander of Jap Attica Hearth Providers
* Vaios Thanasias then deputy mayor of Marathon municipality
* Evangelos Bournous then mayor of Rafina-Pikermio
* Antonis Palpatzis then deputy mayor of Rafina – Pikermiou
Dau Pentelis resident Konstantinos Angelopoulos, whose yard began the fireplace, additionally pleaded responsible to negligent arson.
Who’s proposed to be exempted?
In accordance with the Prosecutor, the then executives of the Hearth Division, Christos Golfinos, Filippos Pandeleakos, Damianos Papadopoulos, Christos Lambris, Christos Drosopoulos, Georgios Portozoudis and Stefanos Kolokouris, ought to be acquitted. Additionally the then officer within the Aerial Media of ELAS Charalambos Syrogiannis.
On the similar time, he requested the acquittal of the then common secretary of Civil Safety Ioannis Kapakis, the then regional governor of Attica Rena Dourou and the then mayors of Marathon Ilias Psinakis and Pentelis Dimitrios-Stergios Kapsalis.
Supply: RES
