Relatives of victims and survivors pointed to the absence of the state apparatus as they burned in the Mati fire.
“The photo was from hell literally. There was the smell of deathit was not possible to stop the vehicle because the tires were at risk of burning due to the high temperatures. Burnt vehicles were everywhere and you could not pass… It is inconceivable why they took fire extinguishers from a residential forest area to take them to Kineta….” testified witness Kon. Tournavite, whose brother was found carbonized in Franko’s plot.
As they witnessed, no one informed them about where they should go, reiterating that the state apparatus was non-existent.
“We were sitting at home and we didn’t understand. The computer was starting to melt. I also had no sense of smell I didn’t understand the smell… The child started screaming and shouting “now we are on fire” I grabbed two things, mom’s pills and a coat, we didn’t know what to do… We went out, we ran. My mother was 93 years old and the fire caught us on the stairs before the beach, there we saw Fitrou’s little daughter jumping on the rocks because she couldn’t see because of the smoke”, she said during the witness statement. , whose mother drowned.
She was screaming for help
“The child was screaming for help, but the grandmother held her in her arms… she tried to keep her afloat, but she couldn’t and she sank to the bottom. Then she started swimming, but she didn’t know which way to swim. In the middle of the night she was going to Kea and Egyptian fishermen were passing by, by chance and with the flashlight they found her by her voices,” the witness described.
They sent the world to the Eye
All the witnesses who reported those horrible hours the alalum prevailed.
“The police didn’t know where to send the world, they did not know how to direct it and were sent through the Eye. The police appeared after the fire. They took my mother’s spine and a piece of my father’s chest. That’s all they did. There was no government, no police, no fire department. They were sitting in the Marathon and they smoked. There were people who saw their houses on fire from the inside and looked at them. Nobody cared about anyone else…”.