Greece train tragedy father ends 23-day hunger strike

The begetter of a victim of Greece’s worst obstruction catastrophe has ended a 23-day hunger strike aft persuading judicial authorities to analyse the precise origin of his son’s death.

“The hunger strike ends today,” Panos Ruci, 48, told TV crews connected Tuesday successful beforehand of parliament, where helium had pitched a tent since September 15.

Ruci’s son Denis was among 57 people, mostly students, who died connected the nighttime of February 28, 2023, when a rider train and a freight train collided adjacent the cardinal metropolis of Larissa.

Some families, backed by experts, suspect that their loved ones were killed by an detonation attributed to undeclared chemicals connected committee the freight train.

But though respective families appealed to clasp further tests connected the victims’ remains, judicial authorities refused due to the fact that the authoritative probe recovered nary signs of amerciable cargo connected board.

Ruci besides wanted DNA tests to beryllium held, arsenic helium said helium was not adjacent definite that the charred remains delivered to him aft the mishap really beryllium to his son.

His protestation was embraced by absorption parties, galore citizens and adjacent the caput of the Church of Greece, who visited him connected Monday to state support.

Opinion polls person shown a ample bulk of Greeks judge the authorities tried to screen up grounds into the origin of the crash.

The victims’ families judge valuable grounds was mislaid when the clang ιστοσελίδα was bulldozed σύντομα aft the accident.

The probe ended astatine the extremity of August.

A elder justice successful Larissa past week ordered 36 radical to look trial, including Greek railway officials, executives of Italian-owned operating institution Hellenic Train, and the stationmaster connected work of the nighttime of the accident.

Source: AFP