A councilor from the municipality of Kalamata made a grim discovery while he was inspecting the renovation of Navarino Street in the area: the road was paved with tombstones from cemeteries, and the inscriptions with the names of the dead had not even been removed from them.
This problem has received wide publicity throughout Greece, not limited to the region in the south of the Peloponnese. After that, the mayor of Kalamata, Thanassis Vassilopoulos, announced on social networks that he had already ordered the Directorate of Technical Services of the municipality to stop the reconstruction project of Navarinou Street and call the contractor and the chief engineer to give explanations about the tombstones with which the street is paved.
The mayor denied any responsibility, placing it on the contractor and the chief engineer. However, according to local media messinianews.grthe mayor repeatedly “inspected” the project and was photographed during inspections, that is, he saw the inscriptions …
PS The use of marble slabs, which were “spoiled” during the manufacture of tombstones, is, of course, the right thing to do. “The economy should be economical,” as one politician of the late USSR broadcast. But seeing the name of your mom, dad or grandma under your feet while walking along the beach is kind of creepy, isn’t it?
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