- Tragic are the moments that take place in the morgue.
- There are dozens of human pain stories for the loss of relatives or friends.
- One of the tragic figures was Thanasis Moraitis, who has lived permanently in Mati for 48 years.
- He went to give DNA to identify his dead mother.
With tears he described that at the critical hour, when the fire was just around the corner, he found himself in the enormous dilemma of choosing whether to save his mother or his wife and his child.
"Everything was done in a minute, I had no choice. "My mother was unable to move, she was 90 years old" said Mr. Moraitis, chanting with tears on the camera "I let my mother burn" »
As he described, he went with his family to Kokkino Limanaki and they stayed at sea for two and a half hours before being picked up by an individual.
Journalist Eleni Lazarou also conveyed his shocking story.
"A while ago a man came and saw his mother burning in front of his 90-year-old mother. The man had gone on holiday with his wife, his 19-year-old son and his 90-year-old mother. They understood the fire very late. When they realized it, the fire was in fact next to them. The man tried to put them all in the car together to leave, their fire was circling θησε He tried to get his mother out of the car, he was burned, he has burns, trying to get her out. He saw that he could not do it, his mother could not walk, he could not run with them and as he characteristically told us: "I did not even have time to say goodbye to her, I left and saw her burning"! "The testimonies are shocking." said "frozen" Eleni Lazarou.
Source: iefimerida.gr