The former regional governor of Thessaly Kostas Agorastos and three other people (the former deputy regional governor of Karditsa and the two heads of the Technical Works Directorate of the Thessaly Region and the Karditsa Regional Unit) were found guilty, by unanimous decision of the Larisa Three-member Misdemeanor Court of Appeal for bad weather “Ianos” the offense of negligent flooding by omission, from which the danger to strange things and man arose.
After also recognizing extenuating circumstances, the court imposed a 15-month prison sentence suspended for three years by a majority vote.
According to the larissanet.gr and the onlarissa.grthe presiding judge proposed a two-year prison sentence.
According to the same media outlet, all were considered innocent by the majority of the crime of manslaughter by omission once and in series.
Lawyer statements
In his statements, Karditsa citizens’ defender Vasilios Kostis spoke about justice. As I said, it is the first step to vindicate your principals and claim your civil damages from the administrative courts.
However, the lawyer for the family of Evdokia Myrtous Plakias, Dimitris Skyftas, said that the family “will make use of all their permanent rights to claim the right of a person who was lost”, adding that “the death of people in Janos A The flood was not an accident or bad timing, it was the result of a collective failure of the state apparatus.”
The lawyer also for the Plakias family, Vasiliki Soufla, stated that “with disappointment we heard today the decision was unfair”.