ND accuses gov't of postponing demolition of illegal buildings, presents documents

Conservative New Democracy on Thursday accused the leftist-led government of consistently putting off the demolition of hundreds of illegally-built structures in Athens since it came to power in 2015, presenting Interior Ministry documents ordering "temporary" postponements.

"Under the watch of this government, the execution of irrevocable judicial decisions for the demolition of 1,639 buildings has been postponed for three-and-a-half years," ND's shadow minister for the environment Costas Skrekas said on Thursday, pointing to interior ministry documents. 

One of the documents, dated February 17, 2015, and marked "extremely important" calls for the postponement of the planned demolition of an illegally-built property in Perivolakia, near Rafina.

Another, dated October 29 of the same year, calls for the postponement of planned demolitions in forestlands in Spata...