What the relatives of the Tempi victims requested from the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court

The relatives of the victims of the Tempi railway tragedy, which claimed 57 lives, unneurotic with their lawyers, visited the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Konstantinos Tzavellas, today, Monday, successful bid to taxable a petition for a supplementary probe into the case. In their memorandum, they emphasize, among different things, that determination were hasty actions by the appellate justice to adjacent the investigation, portion aboriginal the appellate prosecutor of Larissa made his proposal done expedited procedures.

They argued that important documents had not been examined, specified arsenic the study of the State General Chemistry Laboratory concerning the beingness of flammable materials connected the fatal train. For this reason, they request that the probe continue, truthful that the lawsuit tin beryllium afloat illuminated and work for the transgression established.

Specifically, successful their 47-page memorandum, the victims’ relatives authorities that “in this case, determination is an contiguous request for a supplementary main investigation.”

At the aforesaid time, they picture arsenic a “grave omission” the closure of the investigative process without taking into relationship the caller information from the State General Chemistry Laboratory, which could person fixed emergence to circumstantial requests for further enquiry into the case. They besides notation to a bid of outstanding requests, specified arsenic the seizure of the recorder from the Thessaloniki freight station.

In much detail, they stress: “Converging omissions connected the portion of the probe are evident, each related to the outbreak of the occurrence that demonstrably burned live astatine slightest 5 to 7 passengers of the bid and perchance others among our 27 incinerated relatives, arsenic good arsenic causing terrible injuries to immoderate of us. The seriousness, objectivity, and effectiveness of a judicial enquiry is chiefly grounded successful the findings and their thorough evaluation. This probe is perpetually evolving, enriched with caller evidence, which indispensable beryllium disclosed and evaluated by individuals of recognized technological authorization and specialized nonrecreational expertise,” the victims’ families stress successful their request.

Elsewhere, they enactment that the lawsuit record has already produced “sufficient grounds establishing the committee of transgression offenses astatine the felony level by representatives of ‘Hellenic Train’” arsenic good arsenic transgression liability for different individuals.

In this context, they are asking the Supreme Court Prosecutor to instrumentality each lawful steps and, successful particular, to bid the appellate authoritative of Larissa to instrumentality the lawsuit record to the appellate investigating justice for the behaviour of a supplementary investigation, arsenic good arsenic to instrumentality immoderate different lawful action.

After filing the request, Nikos Papaggelis, begetter of Anastasia Papaggelis who mislaid her beingness successful the railway disaster, stated: “They privation everyone liable to beryllium punished, from the Prime Minister to the stationmaster, if it is proven they are astatine fault. This lawsuit record that has been submitted is incomplete. We came to inquire the Supreme Court Prosecutor to reopen the case.”

For her part, Zoe Konstantopoulou, president of Course of Freedom and counsel for the prosecution, stated among different things: “Parents, relatives of the victims of Tempi, and survivors are seeking justice. Today we addressed the Supreme Court Prosecutor for the obvious—that the investigative lawsuit record not beryllium buried. The absorption of the Supreme Court Prosecutor was, successful my opinion, non-institutional, overtly hostile, and inappropriate for the stance a Supreme Court Prosecutor should follow toward victims’ families, toward victims, truth, and justice. We heard a authoritative state himself incompetent earlier adjacent listening to our request, to cull it, and to beryllium irritated by the beingness of relatives and lawyers. Our pursuit of justness and information volition not beryllium subdued. These radical person suffered the top tragedy, the top crime, and nary controlled oregon fearful authorization volition deter us.”

Additionally, Giannis Marakakis, different counsel for the prosecution, stressed that astir ineligible experts progressive successful the lawsuit judge “the lawsuit has been mostly obscured, portion important issues for referrals and trials person been swept nether the rug,” adding that yet the information indispensable prevail, and that determination is not much than 1 truth, but lone one.

Another prosecution lawyer, Manolis Vonikakis, added: “Today we paid a customary sojourn to the Supreme Court Prosecutor arsenic portion of procedural actions initiated past Friday with the submission of a memorandum to the Larissa Appellate Prosecutor, requesting that helium instrumentality the lawsuit to the Larissa investigating justice arsenic the lone competent authority, successful bid for definite important issues to beryllium clarified, for which the judicial authorities person not provided convincing answers.”