The director of the Institute of Geodynamics and the Tsunami Center of Greece, Akis Tselentis, posted on Facebook on Wednesday a photo of himself holding a sign that reads: “Guilty of the April Fish Prank” in reference to April 1, when many countries celebrate April Fool’s Day.
“We live in a country where humor is prosecuted while child abusers, rapists and fraudsters are not,” he added.
A prosecutor on Tuesday ordered a preliminary investigation to determine whether Tselentis could accused of spreading false information.
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“Things are not going well in Santorini”, the seismologist said on Facebook on April 1. “Since January, we have been witnessing the gradual disappearance of the magma under the volcano,” he added.
In his joke, he claimed that there was a “significant possibility” that the magma moved towards a fictitious volcano, creating a funnel-shaped vacuum that could “suck in the waters of the Aegean Sea”.
A volcanic eruption in the 17th century BC on Santorini completely reshaped the island and destroyed the Minoan civilization.
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Its geothermal activity, accompanied by seismic shocks, is still high today.
The last major eruption of the most active part of the volcano, under the lava islet of Kameni (uninhabited), near Santorini, occurred in 1950.
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