All the things at zero, the flood victims say to Documento: no compensation, no restoration, not even a promise that Kampos won’t flood once more…
Eight months after the biblical catastrophe in Thessaly, Documento, which on the time had made a protracted trek within the much-suffering area highlighting the detached perspective of the federal government in direction of the victims, returns with a brand new post-mortem. It’s discovered, sadly, that after so lengthy nothing has modified. Heads of households who turned refugees just some kilometers away from their properties stay refugees. Kids are pressured to journey enormous distances to go to highschool. Commerce unions are deserted, rubbish is piled up outdoors the villages intensifying the depressing sanitary situations that prevail.
For all this, the federal government’s ears stay selectively closed, regardless of the residents’ fixed complaints. “Eight months later, every part has modified for the more severe”, “there isn’t any care or dedication that what we’ve got been promised shall be constructed”, “solely time has modified for us, nothing else” confess the flood victims in Documento.
“No assure we cannot flood once more”
Vangelis Kotarelas is the president of the Farkadona group, one of many villages that was irreparably broken, as tons of water gathered within the space because of the slope of the land, inflicting enormous issues for the residents.
“I have not heard from anybody to inform us what is going to occur. There’s neither concern nor dedication that what has been promised shall be constructed, there’s completely nothing” are the primary phrases of Vang. Kotarela, who continues by exposing the issues of the area: “I imagine {that a} village with out colleges is lifeless. No examine has been carried out on the kindergarten or the injury to the faculties, which took as much as three meters of water. Twenty-five youngsters this 12 months didn’t go to highschool, disadvantaged of social expertise. The faculties will have the ability to function initially of 2025, since even immediately the work has not began.”
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Relating to the embankments he explains: “They haven’t taken care to repair them and safe us, the injury that was carried out in the midst of the flood has not even been accomplished. Nobody ensures {that a} heavy rain won’t flood the newly sown fields once more, whereas lots of the farmers haven’t but obtained the agricultural compensations. In reality, the agricultural roads haven’t been restored in lots of locations and entry to some plots of land isn’t doable”.
One other massive subject that considerations them is the group heart that has been relocated to a neighboring village and stays unfinished. As a result of the truth that it’s 17 km away it doesn’t serve the native residents as there isn’t any native transport, so it’s their most important request that it returns to Farkadona.
Of the 650 homes within the village, 500 have been broken. As Vag informs us. Kotarelas: “They known as homes inexperienced despite the fact that they’d as much as 3.5 meters of water, which remained inside for ten days. Nobody can keep in these homes. Broken home windows, doorways, damaged glass, warped aluminum, this was labeled a inexperienced home.
Dozens of victims didn’t even get the 6,600 euros in compensation for the family items. Many functions get caught in bureaucratic points. For instance, in a home during which the grandmother had the usufruct, the applying was rejected as a result of her baby utilized. In different instances there are numerous notarial points, which, nonetheless, can’t be resolved as a complete because the system doesn’t settle for different functions.
We request that the platform be reopened in order that corrections will be made. It’s not doable due to the shortage of a chunk of paper {that a} household is thrown out and left with out compensation for one thing for which the state isn’t accountable.”
“I do not see a response, they’re slowly forgetting about us”
Relating to the state plan, the president of the Farkadonas group informs us that “it foresees co-housing of flood victims with earthquake victims. Though approvals have been given, no undertaking has been began for electrical energy, water provide, drainage, because of which the Lakka space is full of sewage originating from cesspools.
Many keep as friends both in surrounding villages or in its construction
Lame hand. Half the inhabitants is gone. The homes are nonetheless there and able to fall on the road. We’ve had sufficient of paperwork, there isn’t any completion. The purpose is to go away the demolished homes. We shorten the time and nonetheless persons are thrown. No less than the housing ought to be restored.”
And concludes Vang. Kotarelas: “The shops are all struggling. They suffered losses, didn’t get cash and stay closed. How will the world survive? I’ve conveyed every part I’m telling you to the municipality, the area, the state, however I don’t see a lot of a response. They’re slowly forgetting about us. I hoped that after such a catastrophe the burden would fall on Thessaly, I did not assume they’d let her die.”
“Nobody has obtained compensation”
Slightly additional away, in Megala Kalyvia Trikala, the state of affairs is disappointing and the residents are in despair. Dimitris Kavouras, president of the Affiliation of Flood Victims, explains to Documento: “Nobody has obtained compensation, whereas they’ve obtained an advance cost just for the designated crimson homes. In fact, the information haven’t but arrived to present demolition permits, the demolished homes are nonetheless there. There’s a delay, a procrastination” and he provides: “The authorities are on the ministry, so we’re considering of going there. We can’t wait when the minister will discover time to obtain us, as secretaries have instructed us occasionally.”
A critical subject that considerations flood victims is that because the climate warms, well being points resurface. Smells start to waft from the ruins, whereas rodents make their look.
“Individuals are making an attempt to outlive, they’ve rented homes elsewhere, households with youngsters have left,” emphasizes D. Kavouras and provides: “There’s additionally a delay in hire allowances. There are 40 containers within the village though requests have been made for a lot of extra which by no means got here.
The state didn’t reply relating to the compensations for the restore of the damages and the housing help for the crimson homes, though the engineers assured us that the information have been despatched. As a substitute, extra envelopes for inexperienced homes come asking for extra papers. Individuals have no idea if and when they may obtain them. Counting on their very own energy, they attempt to adjust to every part they’ll to remain of their properties with dignity.”
“Let Triandopoulos reply us”
The flood victims demand and demand that the demolished homes be eliminated on the accountability and expense of the state and in keeping with the president of the Flood Victims Affiliation, their concern is “that Christos Triandopoulos reply us why the compensations haven’t been paid and if there’s a schedule, what care has been taken for the removing of the demolished homes, for which we’ve got no clear dedication regardless of the passage of eight months.”
One other massive subject is ENFIA, “because the payments have been despatched and solely the homes marked yellow or crimson are excluded, despite the fact that the entire village is marked crimson. We would like an exemption from ENFIA since they know very effectively that the damages haven’t but been repaired” concludes D. Kavouras.
The injuries stay open in Trikala
A village we had visited throughout Documento’s lengthy trek was Agia Kyriaki in Trikala prefecture, one of many ghost villages, which was actually abandoned. In the present day within the village the streets stay empty and the few residents with none substantial authorities help are left to their mercy.
The president of the village, Christos Papaefthimiou, informs us that “compensations have been obtained by those that have homes that had been labeled crimson. The opposite homes haven’t obtained something, they’re nonetheless asking us for papers. We can’t accumulate the fallen homes as a result of the information haven’t arrived but, so we’re prohibited from taking any motion. As for the flooded plots, their homeowners have solely obtained some advances initially and nothing else since then. The fields are made slowly and with plenty of effort as there are numerous transportable supplies that stay on the land. Regardless of the cautious experiences we’ve got made to the district, the residents had been pressured to take soil samples themselves to do checks and decide if their land may be contaminated.”
“It is a truth, folks do not should pay”
Going up in direction of Karditsa and the village of Vlochos, which was additionally affected by the dangerous climate Daniel, the issues are principally present in compensations. The residents of the world had been requested about their relocation, nonetheless, because of the disagreement of many households and the unspecified situations beneath which it might happen, it didn’t prosper. Dimitris Kartsanas, a resident of Vlohos, tells Documento that “we’ve got a grievance from the federal government, they do not give us compensation” and describes the state of affairs within the space: “Individuals have returned and try to repair their homes. We want initiatives and cash to make our residing. Our repeated complaints to the federal government and to Mr. Triandopoulos didn’t convey any consequence. We can’t depart our future to when the related minister will discover time to cope with it. We solely received the hire allowance for 3 months. It is a truth, folks do not should pay. What’s the authorities doing about it?’
“All the things has modified for the more severe”
In Larissa the identical disappointing state of affairs. Dimitris Triantafillou from Koulouri, whose home has been marked crimson, notes: “What they gave us initially, from then on nothing. We’re nonetheless ready. My home stays torn down. Nobody has come, they’ve carried out nothing and we pay the hire out of our personal pockets. We did not get any allowance.”
Even when he wished to undertake the work himself, he couldn’t, as he was knowledgeable that it was forbidden, as he wouldn’t obtain any monetary help, successfully making him a hostage to a now established state of affairs.
Together with his final sentence, D. Triantafillou described within the clearest method what the flood victims are experiencing: “All the things has modified for the more severe for us”.
“Solely time has modified for us”
This sentence is accomplished by one other flood sufferer from the construction of flood victims in Koutsochero (she prefers to stay nameless, her particulars are on the disposal of the newspaper): “Solely time has modified for us, nothing else in our lives. We solely received 6,600. If they do not give us cash so we are able to construct our homes, what is going to grow to be of us? I’ve solely 4 partitions left of my life. We reside prefer it’s the primary day, nothing modifications, nothing to make us pleased. A sink, a fridge and a bathe, that is our life, the 18 sq.m. We weren’t wealthy, however we had been human.”
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