Greeks hold mass protests that ask justice after the tragedy of tempi

Greeks hold their largest protest for many years and share a general strike to mark the second anniversary of a train disaster left by 57 and many wounded.

“I’m here to remember people who killed the train crash. We asked justice,” said 13-year-old Dimitris to his father, Petros Polyzos, at the Syntagma square in Attenas.

It was at night 28 February 2023 that a passenger train full of students collided with a train near the Temple Gorge in Central Greece.

A question that ends Thursday that the accident is caused by human error, poor maintenance, and insufficient staff.

The Air Acceptance report in Greece and Rail Accence Actionation warns that safety failures exposed to crashes have not been answered. “Those children were killed because the train was not safe,” said the authority of authority Papadimitriuu.

Templi’s disaster shocked Greeks with a lot of accused of their conservative government to do very little to light the cause of tragedy reasons. There is a widespread belief that the government is intending to cover the role of official high rankings.

The whole center of Athens is full of people at all ages and all walks in life, with many who say they attend a demonstration for the first time in their life.

Afternoon, the tempers burn and blasts have occurred to the police. Petroleum pumps thrown and police use tear gas.

Dmitris and his father were one of the many protesters in Athens, wearing a t-shirt reading “I didn’t have oxygen – justice to the end”, which refers to 57 dead.

The rallies were organized into 346 cities, across Greece in Thessalonici, Ioannina, Patrassa, Patrassa, including Aurdera cities, including Brussels, Rome and many UK cities.

Passenger service from Athens to Thsaloniki full of students who returned to university after a holiday for the train outside of the train on the same track outside Larisa.

Seconds after a fireball almost completely destroyed the first two carriages on the train.

In Athens, protesters held placards reading “my son, call me when you come” and “uncovered”.

Dina Gazi, 62, conducted white wells in the names of the dead in the accident. “I strongly believe that the government hides the responsible accident”, he told the BBC. “We hope that all evidence comes in light.”

Central stores have their shutters, many with sympathy messages and support their windows, and ordinary people do not work.

Schools are closed, trips and trains canceled, and the only public transportation has still been carrying people to and from Syntagma Square.

Taxi drivers promised to bring people protests free of charge.

In a Facebook post, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the thoughts of all were with the victims of 57 victims and those who were saved but carried the memory that night.

“There is nothing more equal,” he added, speaking the “deadly mistakes of the person mixed with chronic state deficiencies”.

Of duty nearly six years, this is the first time since elected mitsotakis he has a hard political position. She promised to move “more dynamic” easily “to bring modern and safe trains.

For Greeks this mass protest is not usually it is unrelated to the economy and their personal finances.

Asking Thursday finds millions of euros is paid to cover the installation of safety systems along the railroad, but the project remains incomplete because of corruption and bureaucracy.

Relatives of the crash killers believe that the train of goods can carry out contrabubus fuel for a smuggling ring.

“It is impossible to know exactly what matters (the fireball), but the simulations and reports of reports indicate the possible presence of an unknown fuel,” the report found.

“Severe information is lost because the place of the accident is not sealed,” as experts say, increasing public anger.

Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis declined to have a cover and said the allegation was not supported by the report.

Additional allegations have suggested orders are given to clear the crash area and “landfill” these days after disaster, which lost evidence is lost. But Marinakis said the question report concluded that there was no political directive given to change the scene.

As he stood in the midst of Friday protest at Syntagma Square, Pavlos Aslanidis said about the death of his 26-year-old son of tempri.

“I don’t know how I found the strength to stand,” he said to BBC.

“My son gives me strength. If not, I’m not here now asking justice.”