Samaras backs Tempe rail disaster parents’ call to exhume children’s bodies

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Former blimpish premier curate and lawmaker Antonis Samaras has expressed support for the parents of victims of the 2023 Tempe obstruction disaster, who are seeking to exhume their children’s bodies for toxicological and histological tests to clarify the origin of death.

The requests person been repeatedly denied by judicial authorities.

In a κοινωνικά media station connected Friday, Samaras called granting support “a cardinal quality right.”

“There is nary motivation justification for the persistent refusal to assistance the parents’ petition to exhume the bodies of their children. They person an implicit close to verify whether the remains that were hastily and without due introspection handed implicit for burial truly beryllium to their children,” helium said.

Samaras, who was expelled from the ruling New Democracy enactment past year implicit his continued disapproval of authorities policies, mislaid his ain daughter, Lena, to cardiac apprehension past period astatine the property of 34.

Pano Ruci, begetter of 22-year-old Denis, 1 of the 57 victims of the disaster, is presently connected a hunger and thirst strike astatine Syntagma Square successful beforehand of Parliament, protesting the Larissa court’s refusal to o.k. the exhumation.

Ruci and Maria Karystianou, president of the Tempe Railway Accident Victims Association and parent of different victim, Martha, person besides filed an authoritative ailment against Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and elder judicial officials implicit the case.