Special forces policemen Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis, who shot and killed the 15 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 in Exarhia, heard the ruling of the court of appeal in Athens.
According to firefighters the strength of the fires in northeast Attica is slowing down and this is the reason some firefighter trucks and some airplanes left for Dioni region towards Pikermi, where earlier the fire was very close to many homes.