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Putting right everything that went wrong in Mati
Agorathat is worthy of the lives of those 80+ people who perished in Mati. Sadly, there seems to be very... whose only purpose is to ensure that nobody has responsibility for anything. What happened in Mati... summer wind in eight years blew from the west, pushing the fire through homes in Mati at a blistering
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Reshuffle expected to follow minister's departure in wake of Mati disaster
PoliticsGreek Politicsdeadly wildfire in Mati, for which the death toll has risen to 90. It was confirmed on Friday... the image of what was a strong response by authorities to the Mati fire. New Democracy demanded... as dangerous as the one in Mati, which ripped through thousands of homes. A report in Kathimerini
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Mati fire investigation puts spotlight on authorities and government
PoliticsGreek Politicswildfire in Mati, which caused 100 deaths, after prosecutors’ investigated how authorities dealt... from the danger area and containing the fire. In a radio interview on Thursday, New Democracy’s... they will launch a parliamentary inquiry into the Mati fire. He suggested that the prosecutors’ report has
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Buckling under pressure of Mati death toll, Tsipras searches for corrective actions
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the coalition’s crisis management strategy. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited Mati, the area.... The head of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) Panos Kammenos visited Mati with TV cameras... the high death toll to the gale-force winds and large amount of illegal construction in Mati
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Athens waits for EU recovery fund outcome as new Mati fire claims emerge
PoliticsGreek Politicsessentially accepting a new bailout for Greece, with all the toxicity that concept entails. Mati... was focussed on new and grave claims regarding the the Mati wildfire in the summer of 2018, which claimed... and the type of vegetation for the blaze sweeping through the coastal town of Mati so quickly. Former
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Mati fire verdict prompts legal blame game as PM pledges swifter justice
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe court verdict in the Mati wildfire trial has become the subject of political jockeying between... in place in 2018, when the offences were committed, meaning they applied to the Mati trial, even... official, was cleared of any wrongdoing in connection to the Mati fire by the misdemeanour court. He
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Expert report highlights systemic failings in aftermath of deadly Mati wildfire
Society, culminating in last summer’s fire at Mati, the deadliest on record. The report was commissioned by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in the aftermath of the Mati wildfire which resulted in 100 deaths... limiting it to the Mati wildfire. This means that those affected by the fire and the country
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Mitsotakis uses justice reform as election rallying cry in aftermath of Mati verdict
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWith the verdict of the Mati trial still fresh, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sought to rally... in charge of the botched response to the deadly Mati wildfire of 2018 as an example of a lumbering... attributed the leniency of the Mati verdicts to changes to the penal code introduced by the SYRIZA-ANEL
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Newsletter 172 -27/07/2018
questioned The deadly wildfire in Mati, northeast of Athens, which claimed more than 80 lives has... to journalists that there is evidence which points to the fires in Kinetta, west of Athens, and Mati being the product of arson. The officials also explained that the speed with which the Mati blaze, which
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Coalition pledges to demolish illegal buildings following Mati fire
PoliticsGreek Politicson the outskirts of Athens very closely with the high death toll in the Mati fire. One of the coalition’s... the human cost of the Mati fire. The next step by the government to show that it is taking decisive
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