Outraged residents of the town of Palamas booed, insulted and threw water bottles at Thessaly regional governor Costas Agorastos when he visited the flood-ravaged town on Saturday.
According to local reports mass mediaAgorastos arrived at one of the centers of the municipality and was initially verbally attacked by residents.
Then the tension increased and several people moved towards him threateningly.
In the video, one of the women can be heard shouting: “That’s right! He deserved it!”
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Some citizens tried to restrain the rest, who threw various objects and bottles of water at the governor and his entourage.
A police squad arrived at the scene and ensured the evacuation of the governor.
Local residents accuse the regional governor of failing to carry out adequate flood control work despite government funding of more than half a billion euros following the September 2020 flood in Medicana Ianos, which also inundated the Thessalian plain in 2021.
Local residents said they would sue anyone responsible for the botched flood control work that destroyed their homes, killed their livestock, and virtually destroyed Palamas’ agriculture and infrastructure, not to mention human lives as people were evacuated. is still ongoing, and it is unknown how many people actually died.
According to official information from Civil Protection, currently missing sevenand the total number of deaths (remained yesterday) is 10.
Present-day Thessaly has turned into a huge plain filled with water and once again clearly demonstrates that the state mechanism is not able to cope with its responsibilities.
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