A Greek appeals court has handed down prison sentences to 10 people found guilty over the 2018 Mati wildfire, which killed 102 people in Greece’s deadliest fire on record.
Cumulative sentences reached up to 340 years, though due to legal limits at the time, the maximum actual prison time is capped at five years.
Four senior fire officials—including then Fire Brigade chief Sotiris Terzoudis—were each sentenced to five years in prison for every manslaughter count, totalling 340 years.
Five others received 240-year sentences, also subject to the five-year cap.
A suspended three-year sentence was upheld for Konstantinos Angelopoulos, the elderly resident from whose property the fire began.
Audience members applauded as the convicted were led out, shouting, “Let’s see those handcuffs,” and calling on them to apologise.
Source: Ekathimerini.
