Nikos Toskas

The lawyer of a person who suffered multiple burns during the devastating 2018 fire at the seaside resort of Mati in eastern Attica has submitted a request for the minutes of the trial regarding the state's handling of the fire and to prosecute the former alternate minister of citizen protection, Nikos Toskas, for false testimony. 

Aristides Baltas, a former minister of culture, has announced his departure from the main opposition SYRIZA party. 

Baltas announced his decision in an op-ed published in Efimerida ton Syntakton on Wednesday in which he also accused new SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis of transforming the party into "a personal instrument of his unchecked ambition." 

Nikos Toskas, a former minister for citizens protection, announced his departure from the main opposition SYRIZA party in a social media post on Wednesday.

Toskas accused the new leadership of deviating the main opposition party from "fundamental principles of the Left and the needs of the people, while aligning with the dictates of the economic oligarchy."

A television expose has revealed recorded conversations of Fire Service and Greek Police officers that demonstrate that the government had covered up the fact that over a dozen people were known to be dead during the July, 2018 Mati wildfire that claimed 101 lives.

A Greek woman who lost her husband and two children in the deadly wildfire in east Attica last July has submitted a request to authorities asking them to respond to whether firefighting helicopters were grounded on the day of the deadly blaze.

A lawsuit filed by a woman who lost her husband and two children in July's wildfires in east Attica has been sent to Parliament so that lawmaker can debate whether to lift the immunity from prosecution of two politicians.

Leftist SYRIZA's central committee is to convene on Monday amid spiraling speculation about a government reshuffle aimed at giving the tired administration a lift.

The mayor of Myconos, Constantinos Koukas, on Wednesday took legal action against former citizens' protection minister Nikos Toskas over a spike in crime on the popular holiday island. 

Whether he's aware of it or not, Panos Skourletis now bears full political responsibility for Rouvikonas and for the police's inability to bring the anarchist group to task.

The interior minister who was recently appointed to head the Citizens' Protection Ministry no longer has a shield in the form of Nikos Toskas, whose responsibilities he assumed.

A woman who lost her family in last month's Attica wildfires has filed a criminal lawsuit against seven officials, claiming that state services' "total lack of communication and confusion" caused the tragedy that claimed 96 lives.