Five ex-officials convicted over deadly Greece fire but freed after paying fines

Buildings burn in the town of Mati, east of Athens, Greece, in July 2018 (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

A court in Athens has convicted five former senior firefighting and disaster response officials over a 2018 wildfire outside the capital that killed more than 100 people.

The fire that swept through the seaside town of Mati, east of Athens, was the deadliest in the country’s history.