Fire Service

Greek TV showed thick, dark smoke blanketing the area with ash falling kilometers away, blown by strong winds.

There have been complaints by the fire-stricken in Mati, Attica, that after the assurances of ministers that there will be a full restoration of the area, there has been radio silence.

Former Fire Service deputy chief Andrianos Gourbatsis has sent an open letter to Citizen’s Protection Minister Olga Gerovasili and Deputy Minister Katerina Papakosta requesting that the ministry launch an administrative investigation of the Mati wildfire.

Under the law, only parliament and not the judiciary can probe the criminal responsibility of ministers, who are also granted an exceptionally short statute of limitations, almost always leading to their evading prosecution.