Costas Simitis laid to rest with honors of a sitting prime minister at First Cemetery of Athens

Former premier curate and erstwhile PASOK person Costas Simitis was laid to remainder astatine the First Cemetery of Athens connected Thursday, pursuing the ceremonial work astatine the Athens Metropolis Cathedral.

Simitis was buried with honors of a sitting premier minister. His woman Daphne, daughters Fiona and Marilena, and their families paid their past respects arsenic a ceremonial march sounded by an Air Force band. The household near achromatic roses and received the folded Greek emblem draping the casket.

Attending the burial were President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, PASOK person Nikos Androulakis and the party's parliamentary group, erstwhile ministers and erstwhile deputies of PASOK, existent and past enactment officials, the erstwhile premier minister's adjacent associates, and friends and fans of the party.

A ceremonial work had been held earlier astatine the Athens Metropolis Cathedral, wherever eulogies were delivered by Greek leaders and colleagues. On its mode to the First Cemetery, the ceremonial cortege stood soon earlier the Greek Parliament and the Monument of the Unknown Soldier. An grant defender fired 3 shots erstwhile the casket arrived astatine the cemetery, wherever Simitis was laid to remainder adjacent to the laminitis of PASOK Andreas Papandreou.