Fire sentences

[Maik]

An Athens court on Tuesday handed a seven-year sentence to a 40-year-old man after finding him guilty of starting two fires in forestland near Vyronas, eastern Athens, for the fun of it, last summer.

In testimony following his arrest in July 2014, the man allegedly claimed to have set two fires – on the 6th and 7th of that month – because he enjoyed watching firemen put out the blazes.

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Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Giorgos Bobolis has recommended that the country’s top judges uphold the sentences issued last year in connection with the fires in Ilia, in the western Peloponnese, in August 2007, which resulted in the deaths of 36 people.

Former Ilia prefect Charalambos Kafyras, former Zacharo Mayor Pantazis Chronopoulos, Palaiochori resident Sophia Nikolopoulou and Minthi forest ranger Panayotis Tsouras were handed 10-year sentences in connection to the fire.

The sentences can be bought out for 40,000 euros each.

Nikolopoulou, who allegedly started the fire through negligence, is under house arrest because of her advanced age.

She is 85.

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[Aristarches]

An Athens court on Tuesday handed a seven-year sentence to a 40-year-old man after finding him guilty of starting two fires in forestland near Vyronas, eastern Athens, for the fun of it, last summer.

In testimony following his arrest in July 2014, the man allegedly claimed to have set two fires – on the 6th and 7th of that month – because he enjoyed watching firemen put out the blazes.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_28/04/2015_549531

Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Giorgos Bobolis has recommended that the country’s top judges uphold the sentences issued last year in connection with the fires in Ilia, in the western Peloponnese, in August 2007, which resulted in the deaths of 36 people.

Former Ilia prefect Charalambos Kafyras, former Zacharo Mayor Pantazis Chronopoulos, Palaiochori resident Sophia Nikolopoulou and Minthi forest ranger Panayotis Tsouras were handed 10-year sentences in connection to the fire.

The sentences can be bought out for 40,000 euros each.

Nikolopoulou, who allegedly started the fire through negligence, is under house arrest because of her advanced age.

She is 85.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_28/04/2015_549530

Wouldn't the death sentence be more appropriate?  Burning at the stake, of course.