Twenty defendants in the 2018 Attica wildfires case will face retrial, after last month's controversial ruling, which saw only six people convicted over their roles in the disaster.
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00:0020 defendants in the case over the deadly 2018 fire in Mati, East Attica, will stand
00:06trial anew after a decision by the Athens Appeals Prosecutor's Office.
00:11The appeal comes after a controversial verdict which convicted only five of the 20 defendants
00:18was deemed incorrect.
00:20The survivors still seek justice.
00:23We knew from the beginning that she was going to be acquitted, and we knew from the beginning
00:27that she was going to be acquitted, and yet we were very disappointed in the process,
00:31because we felt that there was no justice.
00:35Athena Moutafi lost her son in the sea in front of her eyes on July 23, 2018.
00:42She fought for six hours in the sea to save her daughter, and she made it.
00:47She said hearing the first ruling finished her off.
00:52It was very difficult for me personally, because you have to say everything in detail,
01:00and after a while you relive it.
01:03I mean, I went back into the sea.
01:07So did my daughter, because I had my daughter with me when I had the child,
01:11and fortunately I still have her in my life.
01:15Now they will need to relive the tragic moments once again in the appeals course.
01:22Now they will need to relive the tragic moments once again in the appeals course.
01:30You feel that justice is self-inherited.
01:33I mean, she didn't do anything right in the first trial, and now we're saying again,
01:37I'm sorry, things didn't go well, and we're starting over from the beginning.
01:42Yes, there is satisfaction on my part, at least, that I was right,
01:46and that things didn't go well in the previous trial.
01:51Now there is a struggle for justice to start in 2024,
01:57as if until 2026 there has not been an impartial decision,
02:01that is, a decision by Ariopagos, then any responsibilities will be rewritten.
02:06From M.A.T. for Euronews, Faye Doulgeri.
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