Athens Appeals Prosecutor's Office

With the risk of the statute of limitations for any responsibility linked to the deadly fire in 2018 in Mati in East Attica being real and imminent, the justice system is expediting judicial procedures so that those who were brought to trial for the tragedy do not go completely unpunished. 

Twenty defendants in the case over the deadly 2018 fire in Mati, East Attica, will stand trial anew, as if they were never acquitted or convicted, after a decision by the Athens Appeals Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday.

In the wake of the public outcry sparked by the lenient sentencing of those defendants found guilty in the trial over the state apparatus' handling of the deadly Mati fire in 2018, the Supreme Court prosecutor Georgia Adelini has instructed the head of the Athens Appeals Prosecutor's Office, Kalliopi Vardaki, to scrutinize the decision and the case file in order to immediately file an appeal wi