The prosecution for manslaughter The Deputy Prosecutor of Appeals of Thessaloniki ordered against elected and municipal officials in his case accident in amusement parks of Halkidiki, where in August 2024 a 19-year-old lost his life.
The prosecution is directed against seven persons and among them is the fallen Mayor Cassandra Anastasia Chalkia, two former deputy mayors and two municipal officials; heads of service, as well as two engineers.
These figures were sued by the 19-year-old's father. The lawsuit (invocation) concerned, inter alia, the offence of manslaughter by negligence, linked to acts and omissions in the establishment, operation and safety of the amusement park. This request had been rejected by the Prosecutor of Demeliadic Halkidiki on the grounds that there is no causal link between the acts and omissions found and the resulting outcome of the death.
However, a different view was taken by the vice prosecutor of the Court of Appeals of Thessaloniki who accepted (as essentially valid) the action of the prosecutor of the father against the previous rejection decision and by order had ordered a preliminary investigation to determine whether the persons who were released had committed the offence of manslaughter by negligence. After the investigation and the assessment of its findings, the prosecutor asked the District Attorney for Primary Halkidiki to press charges of manslaughter by negligence, an act being prosecuted to an extent A misdemeanor.
Please note that most of the above persons have referred to trial, with another case concerning the misdemeanor of the breach of duty (and in the case of mere synergy and moral insinuation in practice), a case which has been determined to be tried at the end of the year at the Single Chamber of Appeals in Thessaloniki (due to a special lawsuit in the person of the mayor and a deputy mayor).
For the death of the 19-year-old, the Mixed Jurisprudence of Yannices after a long trial sentenced last Saturday four persons penalties for life. In particular, with the sentence of life imprisonment (and additional imprisonment of 8 years) the owner of the amusement park was sentenced to 9 years in prison, his wife (as co-manager of the operation), to six years in prison, the operator of the fatal game (named Crazy Dance) and to 13 years in prison the engineer-enginer, who had produced certificates of operation of the machine.