A complaint-shame about the Headquarters of the Coast Guard reached documentonews.gr. An active Ensign of the Coast Guard, with over 20 years of combat service in the High Seas Patrol (HSP) passed away after a heart attack and the administration initially did not even bother to inform his 80-year-old mother! The management of LS, initially threw the ball to the crew of PATH. served by the 48-year-old Ensign to arrange the procedures and inform his mother. The mother is bedridden in Janeio, before the death of her son, due to a heart attack. His name was Vasilios Stavrinos, 48 years old and he suddenly passed away from a heart attack while he was on land.
The standard-bearer had no family except his 80-year-old mother, who suffers from severe heart disease. Apart from the incomprehensible reluctance of the Coast Guard administration to inform his mother, the most infuriating thing about the case is that, in the midst of all these procedures to transfer the body of V. Stavrinos, the administration of L.S. sent the crew of P.A.Th. of on mission! After strong reactions in the ranks of the LS, they revoked the mission that almost deprived the deceased’s longtime colleagues of the opportunity to honor him and attend his funeral. The sending of a psychiatrist to the mother of the 48-year-old was done on the initiative of Vice-Admiral Constantellos and not by the LS headquarters, which would be self-evident.
People who have served for decades in the Greek seas speak to documentonews.gr about “the most indifferent Headquarters of recent years”, photographing the Chief of the Naval Staff, Giorgis Alexandrakis and the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff, Tryfona Kontizas. The body of the unfortunate 48-year-old is currently in Rhodes.
The official response from Headquarters
documentonews.gr contacted the press representative of the Coast Guard, Nikos Alexiou, who replied that “An order has been given to the P.A.Th. 080 (in which Vasilios Stavrinos served) to turn back to attend the funeral. At the behest of management, the crew made arrangements with a local undertaker for the body of the 48-year-old, and as for the burial, there will be no charge to the family. As soon as the incident happened, the chief physician spoke with the manager of the Tzanios Hospital to perform a coronary angiogram on the 80-year-old heart patient, while there is a person with her from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. For the funeral that will take place on Monday, care has been taken to have a doctor at the scene and accompany his mother.”
But the question remains… what if there were no backlash in the lower ranks of Coast Guard officers and coast guards? Would the colleagues of Vasilios Stavrinos have been sent on a regular mission and would they not have been able to say their last goodbyes to him? According to information, the Leader of the LS, Giorgis Alexandrakis, in the past, for personal reasons, has ordered the movement of a boat from the border to Crete to help candidates who were participating in the self-governing elections.
Specifically, in the self-governing elections of October 2023, a boat left the country’s borders to go to Crete so that its porters could vote for a specific candidate. With the end of the elections, the boat returned to its mission on the Monday after the 1st Sunday of the elections.
Questions about transportation and costs
From the information we have so far we do not know if the body of the 48-year-old will be transported on the vessel he served on (as would be appropriate for people serving on the L.S.) or on the liner. It goes without saying that he should be honored by the vessel on which he served the Greek navy and flag for over 20 years. It is also unknown whether his burial will be a public expense, something that is considered self-evident when a porter who was on a mission passes away.
Until the moment these lines are written, it is known that the crew, the colleagues of the dead flag bearer have put money for his funeral. Did there have to be a huge upheaval in Coast Guard circles for Headquarters to take the obvious? Is this how the more than 20 years of service of the deceased Vasilios Stavrinos are evaluated by the leadership of the LS?
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