Pupils, students rally in Greece demanding “Justice” for Tempi victims

Thousands of students and pupils took to the streets of bit and small cities throughout Greece on Friday and rallied demanding “Justice” for the 57 victims of the Tempi train crash. In Athens, police detained 10 pupils for “preventive reasons.”

In Athens, the protesters marched to the Parliament holding banners and chanting slogans such as “I have no oxygen” a phrase said by an initially crash survivor who was killed or suffocated due to a powerful explosion. The phrase that was part of a short but heartbreaking conversation and a cry for help between the survivor and the operator of Emergency Line and was leaked to the press last month lead to massive protests in the country expected to continue and reach their peak on February 28, on the anniversary of the crash. Two years after the Tempi disaster in 2023, and any trial of the responsible in written in the far future, while no political person appears to have been responsible for any failures and omissions in the safety of the rail network.

The majority of the victims were pupils and students.

The prevailing slogan was the one written on the banner of Athens pupils coordination committee:

“If even one child said: I have no oxygen – That makes the state a murderer! No cover-up”.

Schools from all over Athens and the broader suburbs participated in the rally.

Also teachers marched to the Parliament with their union OLME to have called them with a statement saying:

“Let the revelation reach its conclusion, let the causes of the explosion and those responsible for the unacceptable alteration of the crime scene be investigated, before the necessary evidence is collected.”

Similar rallies have also taken place in many cities across the country.

Thassos

‼️Η πρωτη μαθητική πορεία ξεκίνησε σήμερα στις 8:15 από το ΓΕΛ του Λιμένα Θάσου.

Οι μαθητές και οι φοιτητές σε όλη την Ελλάδα φωνάζουν
«δεν έχω οξυγόνο» λίγες μέρες πριν συμπληρωθούν δύο χρόνια από την τραγωδία των Τεμπών#Δεν_Εχω_Οξυγονο pic.twitter.com/2V5v9joLU8

— john 🪡 ntin (@JohnToyp) February 7, 2025

Polygyros, Halkidiki

‼️Πολύγυρος Χαλκιδικής τώρα..

Ο κόσμος ξεσηκωνεται και απαιτεί δικαιοσύνη για το έγκλημα στα Τέμπη.#Δεν_Εχω_Οξυγονο #τεμπη_έγκλημα #Τεμπη_συγκαλυψη #Τεμπη_δικαιωση pic.twitter.com/p4tfN5MRUo

— john 🪡 ntin (@JohnToyp) February 7, 2025

Lefkada

Και η μαθητική κοινότητα της Λευκάδας έγινε "των νεκρών η φωνή"
(βίντεο από https://t.co/zu6JJdOPK8 & https://t.co/M27cSBL7JK)#Δεν_Έχω_Οξυγόνο pic.twitter.com/jcOFRA1gFt

— The Notabook (@TNotabook) February 7, 2025

Thessaloniki

Θεσσαλονίκη τώρα:
👉Χιλιάδες μαθητές βγήκαν στους δρόμους και απαιτούν δικαίωση για το έγκλημα των Τεμπών!
Μπραβο σας!!!🫶

Telegram: https://t.co/uOBzhqsDI2#Δεν_Εχω_Οξυγονο #τεμπη_έγκλημα pic.twitter.com/EdmUJdf0B4

— Καθίκι (@KYTKYTKYTKYTKYT) February 7, 2025

Pupils detentions in Athens

Police officers detained approximately 10 students, according to a teacher who accompanied them, on Akadimias Street in Athens, a few minutes before the all-educational rally for Tempi was to begin.

The information they gave to attendees who asked about the reason for the intervention was that these were “preventive detentions,” daily ethnos.gr reported.

At the same point, police officers checked the bags of young people who were walking to Athens University in Panepistimiou Avenue where the rally to the Parliament would start.