The Court of Appeals announces its crucial decision on the issue of suspending the sentences it imposed on the 10 defendants whom it found guilty of the deadly fire in Mati.
Earlier in the hearing, the sentences for the 10 defendants were announced. Specifically, total prison sentences of up to 240 years were imposed. Of these, however, 5 years are extenuating.
More specifically, Konstantinos Angelopoulos, from whose yard the fire started, was sentenced to 3 years.
The total prison sentence for S. Terzoudis, V. Matthaiopoulos, I. Fostieri and I. Kapakis before the merger is 240 years (extendable to 5 years).
Furthermore, for Chr. Golfinos, Filippos, Panteleakos, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, Damianos Papadopoulos and Charalambos Chionis, the sentence before the merger reaches 138 years.
The Prosecutor's proposal
The prosecutor of the Court of Appeals, St. Perimeni, recently made a proposal that the defendants S. Terzoudis, Vasilis Matthaiopoulos, Ioannis Fostieris and I. Kapakis serve the sentences imposed on them for the case of the deadly fire in Mati.
On the contrary, the prosecutor requested that the sentences imposed on the remaining defendants be converted into fines.
The court will make its final decision within the day.
The guilty and the innocent
It is recalled that yesterday, the then Fire Service executives Sotirios Terzoudis (chief), Vassilis Matthaiopoulos (deputy chief), Ioannis Fostieris (Commander of ESKE), Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos (Commander of Athens Fire Services), Charalambos Chionis (Commander of East Attica Fire Services), Philippos Panteleakos (director of the Civil Protection Operations Center), Christos Golfinos (Director of "199") and Damianos Papadopoulos (Commander of the Nea Makri Fire Station) were found guilty of manslaughter by negligence and causing bodily harm. The then Secretary General Ioannis Kapakis was also found guilty, as was Konstantinos Angelopoulos, from whose yard the deadly fire started.
On the contrary, the following were found not guilty:
Rena Dourou, then governor of Attica,
Elias Psinakis, then mayor of Marathon,
Antonis Palapatzis, Vaios Thanasias and Dimitris Stergiou Kapsalis (self-governing),
Christos Lambris, director of fire and rescue
Chr. Drosopoulos, governor of FLOGA
George Portozoudis, commander of the Hellenic Maritime Police Force,
Stefanos Kolokouris, then commander of EMAK,
Charalambos Syrogiannis, former deputy commander of the ELAS air force,
Evangelos Bournous, then mayor of Rafina.
Source: protothema.gr
