November 18, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Almost two years after the Tempi train tragedy, the prosecutor of Greece’s Supreme Court has ordered an urgent preliminary investigation to determine why footage from CCTV cameras at Thessaloniki Railway Station where the freight train was loaded was not included in the inquiry of the train crash in Tempi on …
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October 11, 2024
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
Thousands of Greeks and a sold-out concert dedicated to the 57 victims of the tragic train collision in Tempi is taking place at the Panathenaic Stadium in central Athens on Friday night, October 11, 2024. An organization representing several families of the victims has organized the concert with the participation …
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June 13, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A new lawsuit filed against former transport minister Kostas Karamanlis and his deputy Michalis Papadopoulos over the deadly train collision at Tempi in 2023 has been forwarded to Parliament. The lawsuit, filed jointly by the partner and parents of a victim accuses the former New Democracy ministers of dereliction of …
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May 24, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The criminal indictment related to the Tempe train accident was forwarded to the Greek Parliament by the Justice Minister on Thursday. The criminal file refers to the covering with earth the area where the fatal train collision took place in February 2023. According to Parliament Speaker Odysseas Konstantinopoulos, the indictment …
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March 27, 2024
Greece, Politics
The third defendant to testify before the European Public Prosecutor’s Greek representative on Tempi-related contract 717 was released on Tuesday on a 700,000-euro bond to be paid soon, and a ban on traveling abroad. The contract 717 relates to European Union-funded projects by ErgOSE, the Hellenic Railways Organisation’s (OSE) subsidiary …
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March 24, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Allegations that the government tampered the leaked dialogue between the station master in Larissa and the train driver of the Ιntercity before the Tempi disaster set the political scenery in Greece on fire on Sunday. Five opposition parties demanded “no confidence vote” against the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a challenge …
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March 24, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Sunday newspaper TO VIMA alleged on its front page that the audio recordings between the station master in Larissa and the driver of the passengers train taken on the night of the Tempi railway disaster were tampered before they were leaked to the media on March 1, 2023. In a …
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March 22, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
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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February 29, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Students flocked to the Monument of Unknown Soldier in front of the Parliament on Thursday afternoon to restore the names of the 57 victims of the train tragedy in Tempi after cleaning crews erased them on Wednesday night. Erasing the victims’ names triggered an outrage in the society and the …
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February 28, 2024
Editor, FEATURED, Opinion
It took me hours today to get myself together and write a post about the commemoration actions and the marches of angry Greeks demanding Justice for the 57 victims of the Tempi train disaster on 28. February 2023. I lost my inner balance today and the reason was a new …
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February 28, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Very Mix
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 …
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February 27, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
They were all there: parents and spouses and children of the 57 people who found a tragic death in the train crash in Tempi on February 28, 2023. One year later, with tears in their eyes and trembling voices, the mourning families held a press conference about the government’s actions …
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February 13, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
For former Transportation Minister Achileas Karamanlis sole responsible for the tragic train collision in Tempi on February 28, 2023, was the “human error” and the “Greek public sector.” He bore no responsibility whatsoever, even though he was Transportation & Infrastructure Minister since July 2019. Appearing at the Parliament committee investigating …
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January 31, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Hellenic Train CEO Maurizio Capotorto will be investigated for perjury by a prosecutor, after his testimony over the Tempι train accident in the parliamentary inquiry. Maurizio Capotorto, an Italian national, testified last week that those responsible for the railway infrastructure are the ones responsible for any derailments and accidents, meaning …
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January 30, 2024
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
With a highly symbolic inspiration, artist Giorgos Koftis set up an installation he named called “57 NAILS”. It is dedicated to the 57 people killed and the dozens of injured at the fatal train collision at Tempi, central Greece, on February 28, 2023. The installation is located 500 meters south …
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November 16, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A proposal for setting up an Inquiry Committee to investigate the fatal train collision at Tempi on February 28, 2023 was approved by the plenary session of the Greek Parliament in a roll call vote on Wednesday evening. The proposal titled ‘The investigation of the Tempi crime and all aspects …
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September 14, 2023
FEATURED, weather
In the aftermath of storm Daniel, infrastructure in Central Greece continues to collapse due to the huge volume of water, corrosion and botchery. The bridge at Palaiopyrgos collapse on Thursday morning. This particular bridge reportedly connects Paleopyrgos with Alexandrini, the coastal villages of the Municipality of Tempo and Strintzos and …
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July 19, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A high-ranking official of Greece’ rail network managing company OSE was beaten outside a court after his testimony of the train tragedy in Tempi that killed 57 people. After his testimony to an investigator, he was set free. The Director of Electro-mechanical Systems and Electrification of OSE was attacked by …
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May 16, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
Relatives of 57 passengers who died during the train collision at Tempi in central Greece in February filed charges against railroad officials and politicians, including the Prime Minister, against 17 people in total, on Tuesday. According to Christos Konstantinidis, spokesperson for the association of victims’ relatives, the latter are suing …
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May 15, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Relatives of the victims of the deadly train collision in Tempi gathered outside the office of New Democracy politician, Costas Karamanlis, who was transport Minister at the time of the tragedy. The mourning relatives who have established an association, traveled to the city of Serres on Sunday to demand Justice …
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