The “end credits” in the secondary trial for the deadly fire in Mati with 104 dead will be written by the Tripartite Court of Appeal of Athens by announcing its decision for the 21 defendants, who are being tried in the court of law in Athens. The cases for the misdemeanors of manslaughter, bodily injury and arson. In the course of today’s proceedings the round of negotiations of the defendants’ lawyers has been completed. And therefore the president of the court announced that on the morning of June 3rd in the ceremonial hall of the Athens Court of Appeal the verdict of justice in this emblematic case will be announced. Until then, the judges will have fun evaluating all the evidence at their disposal before deciding whether or not to convict one of each of the 21 defendants from the Fire Department, the Civil Protection and local government. The second-degree trial will now close in the Athens Court of Appeals. It was in this chamber that the judgment was announced, the operative part of the judgment at first instance was written and the second-instance hearing commenced, since it is the only chamber in which all the conditions for the admissibility of an application for interim measures are met. The conditions to meet the needs of a multi-person criminal trial with the presence of hundreds of relatives of the victims who will be there waiting to hear the verdict of the judges. It should be recalled that the prosecutor in her opening statement had proposed to find 12 of the 21 accused guilty. Six of the 21 defendants had been sentenced by the court of first instance to prison terms that could be redeemed. The Court of First Instance’s decision, which had provoked an angry reaction from the relatives of the victims, had been appealed a few days later against both the dismissal part of the original decision and the amount of the fines imposed. The Commission is also proposing to extend the scope of the directive to include the following categories of persons: Finally, it is worth noting that the trial of the case, which began at the beginning of last July, was completed in less than a year in order to deal with the possible risk of limitation.