Sympathy for father’s hunger strike over exhumation request

Panos Ruci, the begetter of the Tempe train clang victim Denis, is seen connected Syntagma Square, Athens, during a rally to explicit support for his request. [Intime News]

Government and absorption figures person expressed support for Pano Ruci, a begetter connected the eighth time of a hunger strike extracurricular Parliament demanding the exhumation of his kid killed successful the Tempe train tragedy.

Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said, “There is nary idiosyncratic who is not moved by the struggle of a begetter who has mislaid his child,” adding, “On a quality level we cannot but stand by him.” He stressed, however, that the petition “will beryllium judged lone by the judiciary, since neither the authorities nor the absorption has immoderate relation to intervene.”

New Democracy spokeswoman Alexandra Sdoukou besides voiced idiosyncratic support but said governmental parties deficiency competence to act. Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis called the request “humanitarian and morally fair,” urging a way to fulfill it.

Opposition leaders person joined in. SYRIZA’s Sokratis Famellos met Ruci astatine Syntagma Square, while New Left’s Effie Achtsioglou said her enactment supports his “heartbreaking and profoundly conscionable demand.” PASOK described it arsenic an “inalienable close of a parent,” and Course of Freedom’s Zoe Konstantopoulou declared solidarity.

Meanwhile, Maria Karystianou, whose girl died successful the crash, dismissed speculation astir forming oregon joining a party, calling such claims “fake” and denouncing “slanderers” spreading lies.