The rage graduate while Greece remembers the most deadly train crashes for two years | News

Tempe, Greece – Greece stopped during a general strike that marked the second anniversary of the worst railway disaster in the country with 346 protests counted in Greece and abroad.

Government services, banks and companies were closed on Friday. The ships did not set sail, the trains did not start and did not remain planes or entered Greece-not seen from the date of bankruptcy in the financial crisis in the country.

An independent report on the accident announced on Thursday stated a liter of croid equipment and human mistakes in the Greek railway system that led a passenger train in the north to collide the freight train with the southern cargo train in Klisura Tema in northern Greece, killing 57 people.

Many of them were young people who returned to the University of Solun after a three -day weekend. Their loss has turned the pace of the accident into a symbol of what many Greeks see as a state inability and lack of responsibility.

“It’s not an accident for us. It’s a crime,” said Nikos Plakias, the father of two students who were killed, Al Jazeera said.

“I think what Tempe managed to do in history – that politicians will finally be responsible. I believe politicians will sit at the dock. If one politician was not invited to the account, I will say that this whole effort has failed, “Plakias said.

Thomi and Chrysa Plakia sisters and their cousin Anastasia-Maria sat in a car just behind a restaurant car and survives not to move there, Plakias believes.

“The girls did not have a ticket for the car. They were supposed to be in the car number five. A lot of people came down in Larissa and only 20 found it. There were many empty seats, and the girls wanted to sit together, so they asked if there was a free section in advance and took them to the death section.”

Alma Lata lost her daughter, a medical student in the armed forces.

“We fight for a child’s future, for a better company,” she told Al Jazeera. “Everyone needs to come out 28. For their children, … our children are gone. They don’t come back. But we have to fight for other children.”

The Hellenic Administration for Air and Rail Security Investigation said on Thursday that Greece had already suffered from poor culture of railway safety and outdated practices, but governments worsened things with a bad financial crisis. Serious savings policies have presented the state organization of Helenic Rail (OSE) of the staff and leave the equipment to perish, according to.

These were not the only accusations set at the door of the Greek political elite.

The 2014 contract financed by the European Union for installing security equipment throughout the network, known as the 717 contract, was not fully implemented nine years later, experts said.

“The contract 717 was not a specific goal of our investigation, but let me say, and I do not mean Ose Rank and File, but of high officials, all those who delayed the implementation of 717 have firmly contributed to the death of these children,” said the President of the authorities, Christos Papadimitri.

Many people suspect that the funds were decaying, and 1.3 million people signed a request to remove immunity ministers in the cabinet, so that ministers for transportation in four governments can be judged.

On the day of the accident and in a few kilometers from Larissa, whose station manager put the train on the collision course, the government found a number of human and technical problems that contributed to the disaster.

Maras Larissa Station was not properly dressed for the use of automated controls that were installed, so he returned to a handmade system that did not show him what trains lasting. If he had used it, he would have seen him inadvertently transferred the passenger train 62 to the path in the south.

The signal north of the station that was to be fixed under the contract 717 was not fine, which means that the station manager had to give the train engineers to go orally. The missed recording of the conversation between them shows that they did not follow a real verbal protocol, investigators said, and the station manager told the engineer to continue without finding that he was on the southern path.

Two parts of the trail north and south of Larissa returned to one -way use on the day of the accident due to technical failures. The train engineer would not consider it strange if he was on the southern path and did not question him.

Attempt to cover up?

The ruling conservative party’s new democracy has also been charged with attempting to cover up.

“In the investigation, we came across serious problems,” Papadimitriou said. “The transformation of the collision site into a festive space led to the loss of serious evidence.”

Tone gravel from the town of Bulldozed a few days after the collision, allegedly to renew the clues and renovate the railway service, but this was so busy done, the broken Rolling continued to hold human remains while raised.

The victims’ cousins ​​hired a team of Anubis Coldcase K9, which specialized in body restore. Anubis found body parts several victims, including the extremities of a girl in Plakias, nine months after the accident.

Government Hurry raised suspicion that she was trying to avoid the chemical analysis of the remains left by the fire after the collision.

Video surveillance shows an electric bow that lights two explosions after the impact. “The presence of unknown fuel so far,” investigators said. “The autopsy of the accident site was not executed in the proper way that a type of fuel that was transported and caused a fireball could be recognized after that,” Bernd Accou, one of the investigators, said.

Two official reports published in 2023 from the Hellenic Fire Department and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport blacked the fire on silicone oils that were leaking from the coil of Lokomotiva transformer.

The cousins ​​of the victims did not believe it and ordered their own chemical studies, which showed that there were potential remains of xylene, a flammable solvent used in colors, lights and ink.

The fire killed only five to seven victims, investigators said, but suspicious concealment became a thunder for anger among the public, which accuses the Government of protecting the incompetent loyalists than to ensure safe transportation.

“The government’s attitude from the very beginning was an attempt to cover up things at the level of political and public relations, because it happened on March 1, and on May 16, we had a general election,” Plakias said. “The government was afraid of political outburst and acted amateur.”

The collision with a combined speed of 240 kilometers per hour (150 miles per hour) was so violent that he destroyed the locomotive and the first six passenger train cars, experts said.

This is because the locomotive of the passenger train and the upcoming freight train demolished as they broke into each other, exposing a restaurant car to a passenger train with secondary collision with flat cars carrying steel plates. It was in the car at the fire that the fire was burned down the longest and the hardest, according to the research report.