Paul Marinakis for Tembi: We will not stand in the way of a request for preliminary questioning.

In the case of the Tempes, the government representative referred to them for days. Speaking to ERT about the earthquakes in the Cyclades, Paul Marinakis pointed out that the government is listening to the experts’ suggestions and that the state apparatus is ready. As far as Tempes are concerned, he made it clear that they will not stand in the way of preliminary questioning. CORVERSE As he said “if we could put it in titles the tragic Tembes accident can be evaluated at three levels. The first and most important thing is that it is a collective trauma, an accident which hurts the whole society and much more the relatives of people who lost their own people. We’re not discussing this. That is why the second level is all in light and Justice decides without asterisks and without exceptions who have any responsibility. We’re not talking about that. But there is also a third level, which is about the opposition, which, in a tragic accident, is trying to gain political benefits and even find a political lifeguard, because as it appears from the polls and from the backs that the citizens have turned to a sterile opposition, it is trying to survive politically. And unfortunately he does it on the backs of hurtful people who are the relatives of the victims, but also of an angry society that seeks justice and rightly asks for justice. And it goes without saying that this must be done immediately.” “Now beware of the conversation about the mess there are two discussions. One debate is about whether or not some manipulations were done correctly or wrongly. Justice will judge that. No government, no government representative and no minister have seen it and with the Prime Minister will take a stand for something that Justice is investigating. However, as far as the illusion of concealment here is concerned, I think this is more relevant by trying to implement the opposition. Now see all this time the government is accused of cover-up. And when you talk about cover-up, what do you actually say, accusing the government of wanting to hide the guilty, that’s a cover-up. And all this time, while asking the opposition to file an indictment for all these aspects of the Tempe accident, it did not. So the opposition is coming to do, but until now it was not a cover-up, they had not asked us anything to say and not say “a, we are covering up alpha or beta”. So it comes after all this time that it accuses us of opposition and expresses its intention to submit a proposal for a preliminary examination. What we call pre-interrogation anyway. We’re waiting for the indictment. We’re waiting for the proposal. We cannot say yes or no in advance to something that has not been filed. We have already stated that we will not stand in the way and that will be another great proof that there is no cover-up issue. It is one thing to express a number of objections to the case and it is another thing to accuse a government and a prime minister of cover-up while doing the opposite with his actions. CORVERSE As for the political extension of this PASOK move, because you know, it has a big difference, it’s another thing to go on a channel, a speech and say heavy expressions like cover-up, to blame a government and another thing an official proposal. An official proposal must be accompanied by a specific indictment, causality. We expect all this from PASOK. We expect to see the content. It is given that our official position is different so that there is no issue of accusation, cover-up, and another thing is the commentary of those whom the indictment will say. Don’t connect these two.” “I look forward to seeing the PASOK proposal” Moreover, Paul Marinakis stressed “I expect with great interest to see the PASOK proposal and see how PASOK is legally because from one point on you cannot do these procedures with a political manifesto. It is not a political manifesto a judicial or a process which is a judicial nature that is the preliminary examination. So here we wait, we actually get in here and see what they say and how they document it. And as for the charges for the case, they are also part of an unprecedented tooling, because it is for granted, said point and the new Speaker of the House that this case came to Parliament, announced her coming and blame the former Speaker of the House[…] The case-file came, was announced and what the opposition reports to are complementary documents. It happened that happens with all the case files in the House. A case-file is announced and when additional documents enter the case and are public to all Members.” “All the documents that have come to Parliament have been announced” ‘The documents are public to all Members and if they wish to make use of any document they can do so. No document was hidden, no new file came in, which was not announced. All the documents that have come to Parliament have been announced, all the documents” he stressed. To Kostas Papahlimintzou’ question whether the answer, yes or no will depend on what PASOK will write, Mr Marinakis said “I can’t answer you about something we haven’t seen. He hasn’t officially filed a PASOK proposal yet. We can’t say before the deposition yes, we need to see the content. But we have made a clear political formulation, but this is not a political issue, it is also a legal issue. We have made a clear political wording: we will not stand in the way. But we also need to see the content to be officially placed.” “During the tragic Tempes accident an unprecedented propaganda by opposition is set up” The question whether someone has called a phone in the last two years and asked if he had given an order to make the space with gravel Paul Marinakis said “Mr. Triantopoulos has answered in public, not once several times with his own posts. Well, we’re not doing this court right now. I want to make it even clearer that we may not stand in the way of something, does not mean we will not get a point – point What PASOK will officially bring to see and citizens what all these accusations have been made over the years. To see why they think a man should go into this process. I tell you again next to the tragedy of the Tempe accident, an unprecedented propaganda from the opposition is being set up. I stress this from the opposition, because many of the opposition but also unfortunately some of your colleagues are turning our statements against the opposition into statements against the parents we have never made, just to create impressions.” ‘It is of great importance to have all security protocols’ A special reference was made by the government representative and the earthquakes that have occurred in recent days in the Cyclades. “We, what we are trying to do, are based on the recommendations of experts, the models they perform, make the best possible preparation, the most timely preparation, so that the inhabitants of the areas in Santorini and the areas that need to be informed and in cases where action needs to be taken, these are properly prepared. This is shown by the state apparatus these days and for several days before the issue gets publicised. The Ministry of Civil Protection is trying to be ready as much as possible in all possible. We want to avoid complacency and excessive dangerology. That’s why today’s meeting is taking place, so that some things can be put into a series, based on the assessments and recommendations of experts who will analyse all the possibilities,” the government representative said. He added “sure (ss the Prime Minister) will participate in today’s meeting at 1 noon, so that he too can hear and see all preparations and make sure that the Ministry of Civil Protection continues to this responsible logic of information and daily vigilance.” “ What matters very much is that there are all security protocols that reach every resident in the area, so that he knows which routes to avoid, how to move these days, what to notice, which areas are more dangerous and if something happens all the models to be applied for each individual case will be ready. These will be analysed by experts and presented to society as well,” Mr Marinakis also stressed. He was also asked about whether there were phenomena of profit in ferry or air tickets in the last four days Santorini replied “Look, I can’t say this. I can’t make a decision as to whether there was a speculation phenomenon. It was certainly very important that extra routes were immediately entered to drop prices. It is not possible to pay people who want to leave a place because they are afraid to pay the amounts we heard in some individual cases. It is the duty of airlines to see the special circumstances. They entered extra routes and immediately after these extra routes entered, prices fell to a reasonable level.”