Judge seeks to withdraw from Tempe train footage trial

[AP]

A trial implicit the handling of video footage linked to the freight train progressive successful the deadly 2023 Tempe obstruction catastrophe whitethorn restart from the opening aft the presiding justice signaled her volition to step down.

If the competent judicial assembly accepts the request, a caller justice will beryllium appointed and proceedings astatine the tribunal successful Larissa will statesman anew. The lawsuit had already been postponed twice past period owed to the judge’s illness.

The improvement was announced arsenic hearings resumed connected Thursday, pursuing tensions sparked by claims from lawyer for victims’ families and Zoe Konstantopoulou, person of the Course of Freedom, who questioned the judge’s actions and alleged attempts to bounds relatives’ entree to evidence.

The justice told the tribunal she intended to withdraw aft receiving aggregate “insults.”

The trial focuses connected the handling of video recordings from the commercialized train, including missing footage from the Thessaloniki freight station and overwritten hard-drive information aft the crash. Three defendants are connected trial: a erstwhile president and a erstwhile main enforcement of Hellenic Railways Organization, and a typical of a backstage information firm.

Fifty-seven people, mostly students, were killed when the freight train collided head-on with a rider train connected February 28, 2023.