Trial for the Mati Fire: No Leniency for the 10 Convicted – Sentences Proposed by the Prosecutor

No leniency was recognized for the ten individuals convicted in the case of the deadly fire in Mati. As announced by the presiding judge during the trial for the Mati tragedy, the court decided, with a majority of 2 to 1 and a minority vote from the same judge, not to recognize any leniency for the ten convicted individuals. It is noted that the presiding judge held the opinion that some defendants should have been granted leniency due to their law-abiding lives. For the other leniencies requested by the defendants, the decision to reject them was unanimous. Immediately afterward, Prosecutor Stamatina Perimeni requested that sentences be imposed on nine of the accused, including four years for each manslaughter due to negligence and three years for each bodily injury. Additionally, she proposed that the initial sentence of three years for Konstantinos Angelopoulos, from whose property the fire started, should not be reduced. Earlier, the prosecutor of the Tripartite Court of Appeals had recommended that judges recognize the leniency of a law-abiding life for nine out of the ten convicted individuals. The prosecutor excluded Konstantinos Angelopoulos, a resident of Penteli who caused the disaster, citing his previous convictions.