Nikos Toskas

The lawyer of a person who suffered multiple burns during the devastating 2018 fire at the seaside resort of Mati in eastern Attica has submitted a request for the minutes of the trial regarding the state's handling of the fire and to prosecute the former alternate minister of citizen protection, Nikos Toskas, for false testimony. 

Aristides Baltas, a former minister of culture, has announced his departure from the main opposition SYRIZA party. 

Baltas announced his decision in an op-ed published in Efimerida ton Syntakton on Wednesday in which he also accused new SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis of transforming the party into "a personal instrument of his unchecked ambition." 

Nikos Toskas, a former minister for citizens protection, announced his departure from the main opposition SYRIZA party in a social media post on Wednesday.

Toskas accused the new leadership of deviating the main opposition party from "fundamental principles of the Left and the needs of the people, while aligning with the dictates of the economic oligarchy."

A lawsuit filed by a woman who lost her husband and two children in July's wildfires in east Attica has been sent to Parliament so that lawmaker can debate whether to lift the immunity from prosecution of two politicians.

Whether he's aware of it or not, Panos Skourletis now bears full political responsibility for Rouvikonas and for the police's inability to bring the anarchist group to task.

The interior minister who was recently appointed to head the Citizens' Protection Ministry no longer has a shield in the form of Nikos Toskas, whose responsibilities he assumed.

A woman who lost her family in last month's Attica wildfires has filed a criminal lawsuit against seven officials, claiming that state services' "total lack of communication and confusion" caused the tragedy that claimed 96 lives.

A woman whose family perished in a deadly Greek forest fire has filed a criminal lawsuit against seven officials, including Greece's interior minister, asserting they share the blame for the blaze that killed dozens.

Two weeks after the catastrophic fires that ravaged coastal areas of Attica, killing at least 91 people and razing large tracts of forestland, the country's civil protection chief has resigned.

Yiannis Kapakis submitted his resignation on Monday to Interior Minister Panos Skourletis, who accepted it.

The office of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Sunday announced new chiefs of the Greek Police and the Fire Service following widespread criticism of the response to the deadly wildfires that ravaged Attica last month.

Greece's leftist-led government is looking to replace the heads of the Hellenic Police and the Fire Service following the public outcry over the handling of the deadly wildfires that ravaged eastern Attica on July 23, reports said Sunday.