Greeks hold mass protests of demanding justice after the tragedy train tempix star-news.press/wp

Kostas Koukoumakas

In Athens


Maria Karystianou, whose 20-year-old daughter Marthi died in the Tempi catastrobes, said Greece should find catharsis

Thousands of Greeks gathered in front of Parliament in Athens

In the years, the Greeks held their greatest protests and participated in the general strike to mark the second anniversary of the train catastrophe that left 57 dead and a dozen injured.

In the center of Athens, the crowd was placed hundreds of thousands, and a large number were seen in Thessaloniki, Larissi and Ioannini, as well as many other cities.

“For those of us who have had children in that train, part of our soul remained there and will never return,” Maria Karystianou said, the head of the Victims of Tempi, whose daughter Marthi was among those killed in Tragedy.

The inquiry was concluded on Thursday that the accident was caused by human error, poor maintenance and inadequate staff.

By early afternoon, a group of hoods began to throw rocks and gas stations in the police, defending himself an emotional atmosphere near parliament.

Police in the irregular equipment answered with tearty gas and water, because conflicts continued for a while around the center of capital, in the ERMOU, the Omony and the proportion.

Dozens of people are arrested and trouble turned on again as an evening.

Violence threw shadow over a huge proportion of protest in almost all the city in Greece.

Watch: The protests in Athens came down in violence

“I’m here in memory of people who were killed in a train crash.” We’re looking for justice, “said 13-year-old Dimitris, who came with his father Petros Polyzos at the largest sugar in Greece, in the center of Sintagm.

During the night 28. February 2023. year that the passenger train was full of students who collided with a head with a slave near the topic of the Greece.

The Greece’s report for the air research and rail and rail accident warned that safety failures exposed to the collision are still not resolved. “These kids were killed because the train was not sure,” said Christos Papadimitrio’s main organ.

The Tempi Railway catastrophe shocked the Greeks with many indictments of its conservative governments to work too little to light the causes of tragedy. There is a wide belief that the government sought to cover the role of the High Official.

The whole center of Athens was full of people of all ages and all walks of life, with many, saying that they first attended the demonstration in his life.

Dmitris and his father were among many protesters in Athens, and they wore T-shirts reading “I don’t have oxygen – justice in the end,” he is referred to 57 who died.

BBC / Kostas Koukoumakas Man and his son wear black T-shirts who read in Greece - "I don't have oxygen"BBC / Kostas Koukoumakas

Dimitris, 13, and his father Petros Polyzos wore T-shirts reading “I don’t have oxygen”

The goals are organized in 346 cities, through Greece in Thessaloniki, Ioannini, Patras and Larissi, as well as in cities across Europe, including Brussels, Rome and several cities in the UK.

The travel service from Athens in Thessaloniki was full of students returning to the University after vacation for Greek Orthodox hovering when the train collided with the train of goods outside Larisa.

Seconds after that, a fireball almost completely destroyed the first two driver’s carts.

In Athens, protesters have maintained posters reading “My child, call me when you arrive” and “without cover”.

Dina Gazi, 62, held white balloons with the names of those who died in an accident. “I strongly believe that the government covers responsible for the accident,” she said about the BBC. “We demand that all evidence come to light.”

The shops in the center had blinds, many with sympathy messages and support in their windows, and ordinary people did not go to work.

The schools were closed, flights and trains canceled, and the only public transport she was still operating was people on and with Syntagma Square.

Taxi drivers promised that people in protest would take away without compensation.

BBC / Kostas Koukoumakas stands a woman among protesters who acquire white balloons that are not out of the pictureBBC / Kostas Koukoumakas

Dina Gazi stood out of parliament holding white balloons with the names of those who died

In Facebook post, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mittotakis said that all thoughts were with families 57 victims who died, as well as wounded and those who survived that night.

“Nothing will ever be the same,” he added, speaking of “fatal human mistakes together with the chronic disabilities of the state”.

In the office for almost six years, this is the first time that Mitsotakis was chosen to be in such a difficult political position. He promised to move “more dynamic and quickly” to bring modern and safe trains.

For the Greeks, this mass protest was unusual in being embraced with the economy and their personal finances.

Thursdays, he found that millions of euros were paid to cover the installation of security systems along the railway, but that the project remained incomplete due to corruption and bureaucracy.

The relatives of those killed in a collision believe that the train of goods may have worn smuggling on behalf of the smuggled ring.

“It is impossible to determine what precisely caused (a fireball), but simulations and professional reports indicate the possible presence of the previous unknown fuel,” it was found.

“Serious information has disappeared because the place of accident is not sealed,” experts say, increasing the public anger and increased sealing of the cover.

The Vlade spokesman Pavlos Marinakis denied that there was a covering and said the allegation was not a focused reports.

Further allegations were on the surface suggesting the ordering of the order was given for deleting the collisions and “landfills” days after the disaster, which meant that the evidence was missing. But Marinakis said that the examination report concluded that no political directive was given to change the scene.

As he stood in the middle of protest on Friday on Sintagm Square, Pavlos Aslanidis spoke about the death of his 26-year-old Son Dimitris in the Tempi accident.

“I don’t know how I find the strength to stop,” he said for the BBC.

“My son gives me strength. Otherwise I wouldn’t be here today demanding justice.”

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2025-02-28 18:12:00

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