Illegal bungalows in Schinias-Marathon National Park being probed

The municipal authority of Marathon, East Attica, has vowed to launch a probe into the illegal construction of 13 seaside bungalows on a privately owned plot of land inside a Natura-protected national park.

Responding to a report on Thursday by state broadcaster ERT, which revealed that the bungalows cropped up in the place of a trailer park between 2015 and 2018, Marathon Deputy Mayor Christos Stamou claimed that jurisdiction for that area came under his municipality's purview only recently and that the local authority was only now aware of the breach of environmental protection regulations.

"There were 13 trailer homes on this plot for 17 years. Then they left because the owner decided to evict them from his land, and now we have this. This plot is entirely inside the boundaries of the Schinias-Marathon National Park, which was classified as a Natura site with...