“We rightly do not have confidence in the Greek authorities. There was no research on the explosion while we have serious indications that the world did not die of the conflict, it could not breathe. ” Maria Karystianouregarding the ‘green light’ given to the requests of relatives of the victims of Temps For exhumation.
Maria Karystianou, mother of Marty, who was among the 57 victims of Tempi, spoke today (08.10.2025) extensively about the new turn in the case, following the prosecution’s decision to satisfy the demands of Panos Routsi and other relatives for exhumation, and conduct.
“After 23 days the green light was given to do what it needed from the beginning, our goal is to be able to find specialized laboratories and forensic experts to make controls that will answer the answers to our questions. The process is more difficult now, it’s been two and a half years since then.
We have no confidence in the Greek authorities. Will anyone wrong us about it? We want to put our own scientists from abroad and the results will be sent to overseas laboratories. We have asked for many times because we had unanswered questions. Forensics had to tell us both the conditions of death and the cause. We didn’t know these. Until the sounds came out, they told us that everyone was dying instantly, and then we learned that many were living and dying from the fire.
However, they continued to archive the lawsuits we did for forensic experts and reject our requests for exhumation and toxicological examinations. We have no confidence at all, and it is important to say that we would not be in the situation today if we had the examples of biological material, which was illegally destroyed by the selected investigator Mapakimis in 40 days, without the forensic reports. “
“It will not be a trial, but a parody”
Maria Karystianou then spoke of incomplete research after the tragedy in Tempi, quoting the reason that relatives want the victims’ exhumations: “There is serious evidence that at that time people could not breathe. They were breathing and burning internally. We even have chemical burns to rescuers, forensic experts reporting silicone oil burns. We have evidence that there were chemicals, “Maria Karystianou said.
In addition to the burns, he stressed that there is evidence of decoration, and there was never completed toxicological examination. “Although the air burned, they decided that no autopsy or toxicological testing should be performed. Nothing happened. They did not find out if people died of or after the conflict, “he complained.
Referring to the forthcoming trial of the Tempe tragedy, Maria Karystianou did not hide her indignation. “We are preparing to go to trial without guilty or investigation into the explosion. We, whose people burned alive, what do we have to expect? Karamanlis left out of the frame? Ministers, to tell us about misdemeanors? We have low expectations, ”he stressed emotionally charged.
He accused the judicial and government authorities of “gossiping” and for an effort to “bazze” the investigation, leaving clear spikes for Christos Triantopoulos. “If the jokes had not been done from the beginning by Mr Triantopoulos, we would have already had the evidence and the trial would have begun,” he said, insisting that the procedure followed “would not be trial, but parody”.