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'A death is confirmed once a coroner or doctor puts their stamp (on a death certificate),' the alternate health minister said

Four-and-a-half hours before the coordinating committee convened in the presence of the PM and television cameras, the central Port Authority of Rafina had sent a signal to the Coast Guard operations centre about constant flows of saved people and of corpses.

Whatever the prime minister attempted to do over the last days, and all that his communications team came up with, was lost in an atmosphere of mute mourning

Τhe donation will be used primarily for the maintenance and upkeep of the firefighting arsenal and for the prospective purchase of equipment for the fire service, as well as for training

Τhe question will be: “Do you support accession to the EU and Nato, with the acceptance of the agreement between the Republic of Macedonia and Greece?”

Defence Minister Panos Kammenos attempted to justify the irresponsible stance of the government, and of PM Alexis Tsipras personally, during a news conference today

It is common knowledge that the government was taking all the necessary measures to enable an electoral surprise at any moment

“The prime minister learned that there are unconfirmed reports about dead people after the cameras had left from the Operational Centre last Monday,” said Skourletis,

There are two possibilities. Either the Fire Service hid the truth from the prime minister, or the prime minister hid the truth from the Greek people.

Answers cannot be expected from a government that “searches for errors but cannot find them”

The emotional handicap of the entire government and it members made an awful impression over the last days

ND poses seven questions pointing to mismanagement of wildfire disaster

The move came after days of fierce political and media criticism of the fact that no one in the government had either apologised or resigned over the handling of the affair

The first safe conclusion about the recent, deadly wildfires is that the government delayed in taking decisions that could have saved lives in the battle against the flames

'After such a tragedy, it is high time that they understand how dangerous it is for them and their families not to abide by the laws and rules,' declared Defence Minister Panos Kammenos

The political exploitation that Panos Kammenos attempted on Thursday morning at the site of the tragedy has become a boomerang

Specifically, both the military camp and the Army Centres at Agios Andreas have automatic fire safety systems, which never operated

The government is attempting to shirk the weight of the 83 or more dead and is playing the game of 'collective responsibility'

They have occupied the beachfront without abiding by the law,” he said, essentially asserting that it is the residents of the area who are guilty

Mitsotakis was informed by local residents and firefighters regarding the horrors that they had survived