After more than a year and three administrative and disciplinary investigations, no one has yet claimed responsibility for the disaster of creating new roads in the Akamas, head of the Green George Perdikis said.

Speaking to the Cyrus News Agency while marking the change in year on Saturday evening, Perdikis said that “those responsible for the disaster insist on not realising the weight of their responsibility” and “have been rewarded by the administration” for their criminal works.

“We insist,” he continued, “that the Akamas should not be a place where attendance and guided tours with thousands of private cars are promoted and facilitated.”

As he said, priority should be given to the use of buses and ecological modes of transport while development projects should ensure the natural environment is not affected at all.

More than a year ago, he said, the “interior minister had publicly stated that 25 cases of illegal holiday constructions in Akamas were identified, made under the pretext of the existence of previous construction of farm buildings.”

Perdikis asked is if any of these 25 had since been destroyed or if any owners had been taken to court.

He added that theses questions were hypothetical as he had information from locals that these constructions still exist and new ones are being built in the same area. “These are worrying phenomena,” he added.

Asked about the community council of Kouklia calling for the exploitation of the coastal area, he said he backs the deputy minister of culture who has said she is against the tourist exploitation of Petra tou Romiou.

This position, he said, is backed by artists, historians and archaeologists.

He did call on the state however, rather than private business, to ensure the area has proper disabled access, is under permanent guard and is well kept.