The trial at the Three-member Misdemeanor Court of Larissa for the death of 22-year-old student, Nikos Bitsakis, in February 2022, when he was crushed by a brick pillar that supported a metal door of an abandoned two-story house on a pedestrian street in the city center, has been set for next Monday.
The unlucky student from Katsifariana, Chania, who was studying in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Thessaly, on Sunday, February 20, left a nearby bar where he was having fun with his friends until the early hours of the morning and headed to the abandoned house at the junction of Asklipio and Oikonomou Streets ‘ Housekeeper.
There, according to what became known later and from the testimonies of the friends who were with him, he kicked the door for an unknown reason, causing part of the column that supported it to detach and crush him. The medical examiner Eleni Zagelidou, who conducted the forensic examination, had reported to larissanet at the time that the 22-year-old suffered a severe brain injury from construction material.
After the tragic event, a storm of reactions followed regarding the responsibilities of the then municipal authority and whether the urban planning service had been informed about the condition of the specific residence. In a press conference given on the occasion of the incident, the former mayor of Larissa, Mr. Apostolos Kalogiannis, stated that “the Sworn Administrative Examination did not show that there is a record, either written or verbal, to our urban planners regarding the specific structural element. All town planning officials were examined and not just the director and the relevant department. No record of such a property has come to light either documents or verbally. It does not appear from any of the statements of our employees that there was a verbal complaint.”
However, two years after the tragic incident, the Larisa First Instance Prosecutor’s Office found sufficient evidence of guilt for the owner of the residence and for a former employee of the Town Planning Department of the Municipality of Larissa and brought criminal proceedings for the misdemeanors of manslaughter by omission and common dangerous damage by negligence. by omission.
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