Father renews request for exhumation in Tempe train disaster case

Another genitor who mislaid a kid successful the 2023 Tempe railway catastrophe has submitted a ceremonial petition for the exhumation of his son’s remains, seeking further DNA and forensic testing.

Pavlos Aslanidis is calling for tests connected 5 of the 8 assemblage parts that were placed successful his son’s coffin, noting that lone the different three were examined astatine the clip of identification. His exertion has been filed with Maria Lianos, president of the Larissa Court of Appeals.

In summation to DNA verification, Aslanidis is besides requesting biochemical, histological, and toxicological tests to assistance found the precise origin of decease of his 27-year-old son, Dimitris.

This is not the archetypal clip Aslanidis has requested exhumation. He initially filed an exertion successful precocious 2024, but the tribunal rejected it, ruling that it was premature until the submission of a technical study by National Technical University prof Dimitris Karonis connected the origin of the fireball that engulfed the trains. A subsequent effort successful 2025 besides failed, arsenic the tribunal referenced the findings of three university professors who concluded that there was nary grounds of amerciable cargo contributing to the explosion.

The Tempe catastrophe connected February 28, 2023, killed 57 people, galore of them university students, when a rider train and a freight train collided head-on successful the Tempe Valley.

Last week, the lawsuit returned to nationalist attraction pursuing Panos Ruci’s hunger and thirst strike demanding his son Denis’ exhumation.