The dramatic scenes that unfolded in the well-known Pankrati, during its outbreak Sunday (24.11. 24) described a woman who was in the store at that time. It is noted that the fire at the bar located on Spyros Merkouri Street was caused when a lit cake torch touched on part of the decoration of the store’s ceiling, while a short circuit followed in Christmas lights, resulting in a small explosion. In the panic created inside the bar, the people inside began to break the windows to escape, with six people being transported with slight injuries to Evangelism. “This [the waiter] because we were on top of each other – in general there was a mess inside the store, you couldn’t get through – try to sneak in and so he raised the cake higher with his hand” he describes to ANT1 a woman who had fun at that bar. According to her, the time she ascended, a hanging flower caught fire. “As soon as I see it I go to the door, now this two seconds? I was the first to open the door,” the eyewitness said. “I turn around to call my friend to come out and the whole roof had caught fire. I saw this thing, the plastic falling on people. It burned them. Everyone told me “I am burned because I feel burning” he said to supplement how a girl’s wool caught fire. Commenting on the emergency exits that existed at the night shop he said there was only one and that “it became crazy”. At the same time, he said that people in the bathroom had not understood what had happened and heard the voices. “When I saw the fire take off above, I say “all right, everyone will burn in here”” he completed to mark, among other things, from now on when he goes to shops he will sit next to the exit. “The employee was not to blame. They told him to put the cake in, put the fireworks in the way they’ve brought them,” he concluded. Criminal prosecution for arson by negligence on the waiter For arson by negligence the bar waiter in Pagkrati was charged with fire from Bengali to cake. He was prosecuted to a degree of misdemeanor and charged with arson by negligence, which could seem fatal to other workers and to the night store customers.
“I watched this thing run into people, it burned them”: Shocks testimony about the fire at the bar in Pagkrati
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