Chios politicians call for Easter ‘rocket war’ to continue

[Yiannis Malafis/Facebook]

Politicians, concern leaders and tourism stakeholders connected the eastbound Aegean land of Chios person called for the Orthodox Easter “rocket-war” celebrations to spell up this year, contempt a caller constabulary crackdown connected an amerciable fireworks workshop linked to the iconic section tradition.

In a κοινωνικά media post, the island’s mayor, Yiannis Malafis, shared a photograph of him alongside section MPs Notis Mitarakis of New Democracy and Stavros Michaelides of PASOK, arsenic well arsenic representatives of the concern and tourism sectors, urging that the lawsuit proceed.

“The customized of the rocket war, connected a constricted standard and with enhanced information measures, is supported by each stakeholders, arsenic has been the lawsuit for galore decades,” helium said.

The spectacular Easter customized takes spot successful the village of Vrontados, where youths from two rival parishes acceptable up positions connected adjacent hills and occurrence thousands of homemade rockets toward opposing religion towers. The churches, on with surrounding buildings, are boarded up successful beforehand to bounds damage.

The telephone for the lawsuit to proceed comes aft constabulary past Monday arrested 7 radical injured successful a occurrence astatine an amerciable fireworks workshop preparing for the missile-firing tradition. Four of those arrested – three men and 1 woman – suffered second-degree burns successful the blaze, which occurred connected Palm Sunday.