Angelos Siapkaras tearfully testified in court, who yelled at the headquarters “I feel like I’m in the wrong place, just like my daughter was in the wrong place and with the wrong people to handle the situation. That was her misfortune. Those who should have done nothing.”
The witness burst out talking about his child, and with tears in his eyes he said: “I’m a big person. I might not be able to talk about my child again, I might not catch up. 140 steps from the sea was lost. I count them every year at the memorial service. Do you understand what I’m saying? All these did not save a single person. They are irrelevant to their work, to the task they have and they are already promoting them. None of them have gone to jail and they throw it at each other. And we broke up. After nine days they sent us a covered coffin. I don’t even know what was in it. Her brother went the next day and collected his sister’s bones. There was a complete lack of any concept of a state. But you, if you want, have the way. You can and should try to understand us and do justice.”
The witness, who lost his mother, sister and five-year-old twin nieces in the fire, was a “catapal” against those responsible.
“They didn’t even send enough bags for the dead. The firefighters were fighting because there were not enough body bags. Those people who were burned in the area we call the “Jungle” were lying, left in the street until the next day at seven in the morning, because the authorities had to first make a contract with a certain Funeral Home. Six years have passed and we have not found out why the Police is not here, why the Forest Service is not here. We didn’t find out why the lawsuit we filed against the then ministers Tosca and Skourletis was never discussed in the Parliament,” said Mr. Cheroubeim with emphasis in his testimony.
The witness claimed that there was at least 50 minutes to safely evacuate those in Mati and Neo Voutza.
“At the same time they removed people from Kineta. They didn’t do an organized evacuation there. They were notified by patrol cars to leave. Nothing happened in Mati… Not even a bell rang. In the first court, when an official of the Fire Department was asked why the bells were not rung, he answered “why, we had a celebration?”. The Chief and the Deputy Chief did not come, so for the eyes of the people, to the area neither that day nor the next day.”
Mr. Cherubim also spoke about how his loved ones did not manage to escape the fiery doom: “My family, if they had been informed at six and a quarter past six, they would have been saved. They started to leave at half past six and headed for the hill. Shortly after, they were burning together with a couple who was trying to leave… While my family and the couple were burning, it was the first time that the Civil Protection Operations Center of the Fire Department contacted the Municipality of Marathon. How long after the fire started. There is an audio that police officers inform that “there is a problem in the settlement of Jungle” and no one moved. The next day the bodies were burning and being taken again and again and when some told firemen to put them out, they replied “what should we put out now?”. I took the white bodies, because the rescuers extinguished them with the fire extinguisher of the car.”
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