Supreme Court prosecutor: ‘No exhumation request for identification of Tempe victims’

No petition had been received for the exhumation of Tempe victims for recognition purposes, the Supreme Court authoritative said successful a statement connected Monday.

According to the prosecutor, helium received an extrajudicial ailment from the families of the Tempe victims connected 16 September.

The families requested exhumation to find the circumstances of the victims’ deaths, specifically whether traces of substance connected their bodies indicated the beingness of amerciable flammable cargo connected 1 of the trains.

‘They besides asked that the exhumation beryllium carried retired with experts from Greek and overseas laboratories appointed, and with technical advisors participating,’ the statement added.

The authoritative says that this petition has been forwarded to the Larissa Court of Appeals, which is liable for approving oregon rejecting it. 

He added that the ailment did not explicitly petition exhumation for the recognition of the victims’ bodies.

‘Should such a petition beryllium formally submitted oregon deemed to beryllium included, it will beryllium reviewed and answered immediately,’ the statement concluded. 

This statement was made successful effect to comments made by Pano Rucci, the begetter of 1 of the 57 victims of theTempe train crash, Denis, who has been connected hunger strike extracurricular Parliament successful Syntagma Square for the past 8 days to protestation against the rejection of his petition to exhume his son’s body.

Rucci explained that helium is seeking an exhumation for two reasons: to assistance place some victims who were not successful a recognisable state, and to find the circumstances of their deaths.

On Sunday, thousands of radical gathered successful Syntagma Square successful Athens and successful Thessaloniki to amusement support for Rucci’s request.

Earlier connected Monday, when asked astir Rucci’s request, authorities spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said that the authorities cannot interfere with the work of the justness system.