Greek State to Join Prosecution in Tempi Train Disaster Trial

The Greek authorities has announced that it volition squad up with the prosecution successful the proceedings implicit the 2023 Tempe bid collision, a important improvement that lawyers connected some sides described arsenic a turning constituent successful 1 of Greece's astir consequential transgression cases successful caller memory.

By Lia Kontopoulou

The declaration volition beryllium submitted astatine the adjacent proceeding scheduled for April 27, erstwhile proceedings resume astatine the Gaiopolis league center.

The 3rd league of the proceedings unfolded without the tensions that marked its 2 stormy predecessors, with a smaller attendance reflecting a tribunal bid limiting Monday's league to victims' relatives and survivors who had not yet completed their ceremonial registration arsenic civilian parties.

Only 3 of the 36 defendants appeared successful the dock, prompting defence lawyer Zoe Konstantopoulou to request the tribunal compel each accused to be successful person.

"This proceedings has wounded an full society," Mrs. Konstantopoulou said. "Their lack is not morally, humanly oregon historically acceptable."

She besides renewed a telephone for televised sum of the proceedings.

Forty-nine barroom associations and the nationalist national of railway traction unit besides registered to enactment the prosecution.

Among those who addressed the tribunal was the parent of subject serviceman Elena Dourmika, who died aboard the rider bid portion returning from an authoritative travel to Athens.

Visibly distressed, she told the judges: "I implore justness to punish those liable for the decease of my child."

Mrs. Dourmika's hubby demanded each defendants beryllium physically present, adding that his children mislaid their parent due to the fact that she was required to question to Athens successful idiosyncratic for duty.

Lawyers representing the household of Gerasimos Georgiadis — a subsister who has remained successful a coma for 3 years — told the tribunal his information constituted "an ongoing crime." Attorney Othon Papadopoulos said: "He is neither successful eden nor connected earth."

The Tempe disaster, successful which 2 trains collided head-on successful February 2023, killed 57 radical and remains Greece's deadliest obstruction accident.