ATHENS: Greek authorities placed a town mayor who owns an electrical company and two others in pre-trial detention Friday after charging them with arson over a wildfire that ravaged large areas near Athens last week. Investigators believe the blaze started on July 31 with a spark from power cables at a wind farm near Agios Vasileios, a seaside village at the foot of a mountain 85 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Athens. Giannis Apostolou, mayor of the small town of Stylida around 140 kilometers northwest of the capital, owns an electrical installation company linked to the wind farm.

According to an initial investigation by the fire service, the blaze started on Friday with a spark on power cables managed by a private company in Agios Vasileios. #EuropeNews

An investigating magistrate on Friday ordered the pretrial detention of the mayor of Stylida, a contractor and the owner of a company involved in a wind farm project in Viotia as…

Giannis Apostolou é dono de uma empresa de instalações elétricas ligada a um parque eólico