Mass poisoning in a welfare center in Lesvos

Shocked, the local community in Lesvos is watching developments in the thriller with massive food poisoning disabled at a welfare center of the island. Four years later, six defendants will finally sit in the dock …

It was June 2021 when 25 guests in the welfare center showed symptoms gastroenteritisas they consumed damaged food. As it was found in pork there were high concentrations of coliforms, and the water with which the center was water was contaminated.

Mass poisoning in a welfare center in Lesvos

Tragic account from poisoning? 25 Foods are diagnosed with food poisoning, and a 60 -year -old with a disability who lived in the Foundation since his 16 years, collapsed inside the Foundation and shortly thereafter left his last breath.

The wife of the 60 -year -old victim’s brother talks to in in what her man lived before she came to come to: « We asked him what he was doing, how he was and told us he was good. And the next day, the social worker phoned us from the Foundation and told us that he is not feeling very well and lowering him to Mytilene Hospital. He went into a miserable condition in the hospital, dehydrated, did not conscious of vomiting and diarrhea and had already made two opposition. « 

« While we were looking for tickets to come to Mytilene, they called us that he was dying. We have tried many times to contact the Foundation to find out what happened. No one informed us. To justify my brother -in -law because he was a defenseless person. I believe that he suffered too much, « the victim’s bride says in a strong emotional charge.

Four years later the court has not yet begun. The family of the 60 -year -old disabled is indignant by successive postponements.

According to the report by IN, the man who passed the director at the Center, during the mass poisoning, still performs his duties normally today, without being paused for a day, which is confirmed by the relatives of the victims.

Specifically, the 60 -year -old disabled bride stresses: « The commander remains in his place as if nothing happened. It is a group that you see them are hugging and not matter, while they are homicide and have been postponed again, it is the second time they are postponed. « 

In In, he talks about the evolution of the case, the lawyer of the victim – support of the category, Antonis Xylourgidis: « In front of the Three -Member Criminal Court of Mytilene, a second time was postponed, with the request of the counterbalances in terms of the crime. My clients expressed their opposition because not only did they not receive any information, but it concerns a case of time. « 

And he adds: « It counts for more than four years (2021) where one of their own man, my client’s brother and have not yet received answers from the official state. Because you know very well, that when you put responsibility for someone to take care of a man who is unable to self -serve, then you have at least the expectation to be informed of his health and not to speak in the morning and in the evening to end up dead. « 

« Twenty -five of 55 carers that day were ill with gastroenteritis. However, one of them ended up at Mytilene Hospital. The ensuing investigation resulted in the standardization of responsibility for six defendants, and we are currently waiting to see what will happen in the hearing and what will be the criminal evaluation by the court, « Mr Xylourgides continues.

« But until then, unfortunately, this is the complaint of the family, we do not receive answers, the case is time. And it concerns an act of 2021, a man with very particular problems has died and to this day his relatives have not learned what has happened, who has the responsibility and what should be done to avoid this outcome. Not a single person could inform them in a formal way what happened to their man. They told me that they tried to find the administration of the institution and no one ever responded to the phone call. « 

« Of course we will exhaust all the remedies. An alien impression, but not a surprise, that the same people are working and governed by the same people who are accused. And everyone realizes that controls cannot be controlled. The organized state to which the Center belongs to, in any favored state would have been checked and until the case was clarified and the criminal court’s decision to be imprinted by the Criminal Court would have removed them from the positions of key responsibility. The state reflexes should also be shown in this case as well, ”he concludes.

In defense lawyers, Dimitris Kallias and Panagiotis Kounellis, also speak: “The loss of human life is always tragic and especially the 60 -year -old guest, who plunged into grief managers of the center. It was the longest -running center of the center with 40 consecutive years of residence in it. Man of structure throughout her course.

« Our position does not negate the human cost or the pain of families. But it is the duty of all of us, and especially of justice, to examine the actions and responsibilities with calmness and respect for the presumption of innocence. We do not seek concealment, but the truth, especially when it comes to a ‘model’ center for our island, taking into account what it has offered to careful 50 years of operation, ”they add.

And they conclude: « For this reason, both me and my colleague will not make that particular time in any other statement, before and outside the audience. »

After repeated postponements due to defense obstacles, the trial is expected to begin in October…