On Monday 10th November, the Ministry of Justice signed over the building which formerly housed the Magistrates’ Court (Eirinodikeio) in Kolymbari to the Municipality of Platanias for use by the municipality and local social organisations. At an announcement to the press the following day, the Deputy Immigration Minister and MP for Chania Sevi Voloudaki said that this was an issue which had been first raised with the then Justice Minister in 2021 [by her late husband, the Chania MP Manousos Voloudakis], but had ground to a halt. It had then been taken up again recently, initially with the Deputy Justice Minister Giannis Bougas and then the Minister Giorgos Floridis, resulting in the signing of a ministerial decision for the assignment of the building to the Municipality.