Two executives of ERGOSE, the projects branch of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE), were ordered to post a 600,000-euro and 500,000-euro bail quarantees, respectively, before being released from jail on Thursday as part of a European probe into a deadly train collision in Tempi last year, and specifically the implementation …
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Tempi Train Crash Victims: Thousands march in Greek cities demanding Justice
Thousands of citizens took to the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki and other major Greek cities on Wednesday to commemorate the 57 victims of the train collision disaster in Tempi a year ago, to demand “justice” and the end of cover up attempts from the side of the government. Protesters spray …
Read More »Injured victim of train crash files criminal complaint also against politicians
A woman who was injured in the deadly train collision at Tempi filed a criminal complaint at the Athens prosecutor’s office on Friday, demanding the full investigation of the accident. Filed through court lawyers, the complaint calls for investigating the criminal liability of every person in a position of responsibility …
Read More »Rage in Greece continues over the 57 victims of train crash
This is the saddest newspaper front page since a long time. The names and the ages of the victims of the train collision on February 28. The list includes the names of 56 out of 57 victims in total. Not included is the name of the Syrian migrant, an identified …
Read More »Two Athens metro stations closed due to train crash protest rally
Athens metro stations “Syntagma” and “Panepistimio” have been shut down since 10:30 Sunday morning due to protest rallies in downtown. The trains will pass through the two stations without stopping. They will open again upon a police order. The protest rallies start at 12 o’ clock noon. Public sector union …
Read More »Measures to support train crash victims’ families, survivors
The Greek government announced on Friday a total of eleven support measures to help relatives of victims, injured and passengers in the Tempe train collision on February 28. Among others, the government announced a special pension, in favor of the families whose member or members have died, to write off …
Read More »Ex bishop Amvrosios: Train crash “God’s punishment for Carnival”
A former bishop, in fact a godless man full of hate, Amvrosios of Kalavryta, blamed the victims of the train crash, claiming it was God’s punishment for the Carnival celebrations. “The tragedy in Tempi could be our Lord expressing rage for the 3-day Carnival celebrations” in Greece, he claimed in …
Read More »Train crash 10 days later: Greece’s ministers appear devastated at cabinet meeting
Broadcasting live the introduction statement by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the start of the cabinet meeting on Thursday morning was rather a flop even though several ministers showed deep mourning and devastation ten whole days after the deadly train collision in Tempi on February 28, 2023.. Addressing the ministers …
Read More »Syrian migrant identified as train crash victim
DNA tests have confirmed the identity of a man’s body found in the wreckage of the passenger train. The man was a Syrian migrant. involved in the train collision near Tempe in central Greece on February 28 which killed 57 people. Authorities said he was a migrant from Syria and …
Read More »Train Crash: Turkey allows jailed Greek father to attend son’s funeral
The jailed father of a train driver killed in the Tempi train crash is to be released from a Turkish prison so that he can attend his son’s funeral. Citing sources, media report that this was the topic of a discussion on the phone conversation between Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias …
Read More »Train Crash: Greece’s unions mobilize for a general strike on March 8
Greece’s public and private sectors are mobilizing for a general strike on Wednesday, March 8, a week after the deadly head-on train collision as more details about chronic negligence and a blame-game anger more and more the Greek society. The strike start was made by public sector union ADEDY, but …
Read More »Bangladesh national among the train crash victims
One more body was identified on Monday, almost a week after the deadly train crash. DNA samples matched showed that the body belonged to a 33-year-old national of Bangladesh, who was living and working in Greece. The 33-year-old lived in Greece for about ten years and earned his living by …
Read More »Mitsotakis intrevenes urging Prosecutor to prioritize train crash investigation
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sent a letter to the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Isidoros Dogiakos, on Monday urging him for a immediate and in-depth clarification regarding the deadly train collision in Tempi. In his letter, the Prime Minister stated that “it is a reasonable and fair request of Greek …
Read More »Train Crash: Station master remanded in custody, investigation targets two more
The station master of Larissa was remanded in custody after a testimony that lasted over seven hours until late on Sunday. The 59-year-old man is being charged with endangering transport safety and multiple counts of negligent homicide and bodily harm. The transport safety charge, a felony, potentially carries a life …
Read More »Mitsotakis apologizes for train crash, dissolves peaceful protest with tear gas
With five days delay, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis apologized for the train crash that claimed the lives of 57 people. His apology was not on an address to the nation but on a Facebook post where he usually makes a …weekly review. A kind of administrative wrap up to …
Read More »Athens metro workers on 24h strike to join train crash protest
Workers at Athens Metro Lines 1, 2 and 3 will launch a 24-hour strike on Sunday, March 5, in order to participate in the protest rally at 11 a.m. at Syntagma square. Metro unionists will join their colleagues at the Hellenic Train and other train unions who called for the …
Read More »Train crash investigating committee member resigns in less than 24 hours
Hardly had the conservative Greek government established a 3-member committee tasked with the investigation of the deadly train disaster and one member resigned after it came under fire by opposition parties and large part of the social media society. Thanassis Ziliaskopoulos, a professor of production and transportation at the University …
Read More »Protests in Greece turn violent as anger over train crash grows (videos)
As anger in the society grows, thousands of Greeks took to the streets of several cities on Friday to protest the tragic death of 57 people caused by a head-on train collision on March 1. As no other expected, in some cities, protests turned violent. In Athens, Thessaloniki and Larissa …
Read More »Train crash victims return to families in sealed caskets (POLL)
Τhe first remains of the train collision victims have been being returned to families in sealed caskets on Friday and the first funeral has been held in Katerini, northern Greece, on the same day. 34-year-old and mother of a 2-year-old child Athina was traveling together with her husband. He survived …
Read More »Train Crash: Greek father in Turkish prison seeks permit to attend son’s funeral
A Greek inmate in a Turkish prison has applied for a temporary absence to attend the funeral of his son who was killed in a head-on train collision in central Greece on Tuesday. Greek media have identified the victim as 28-year-old Nikos Nalbantis. There was no information about the identity …
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