Parliament to probe whether ex-minister tampered with site of Tempe rail disaster

The Greek Parliament decided precocious Tuesday to acceptable up a preliminary probe committee that will see allegations against erstwhile Deputy Climate Crisis and Civil Protrection Christos Triantopoulos.

The main absorption socialist PASOK enactment that tabled the connection claims Triantopoulos, who resigned his ministerial station Tuesday while protesting his innocence, covered up grounds connected the ιστοσελίδα of the Tempe railway catastrophe by ordering the filling of the ιστοσελίδα a mates of days aft the Feb. 28, 2023, clang of a rider and a cargo train. The authoritative accusation is “dereliction of duty.”

The result, 277-12 successful favour of mounting up the 27-member committee, was a foregone decision erstwhile the authorities decided to support the proposal, saying that it, too, favored total transparency. Four MPs voted present, two formed blank ballots and different two spoiled ballots.

With the nationalist widely sharing the suspicions of the relatives of the 57 victims of Greece’s deadliest obstruction catastrophe that the authorities was, astatine a minimum, little than forthcoming astir what transpired that nighttime or, worse, that it deliberately suppressed evidence, and the absorption seeking to marque governmental superior retired of the issue, the lawsuit has precocious exploded successful a way that it had not successful the contiguous aftermath of the disaster, putting the authorities connected the defensive. Protests person been escalating and the ones organized connected the 2nd day of the catastrophe were massively attended.

Parliamentary enactment leaders will statement the contented Wednesday. Also Wednesday, 4 absorption parties (PASOK, SYRIZA, New Left and Course of Freedom) are expected to table a associated question of nary confidence.

Some victims’ relatives decried the process arsenic a coverup and claime that each authorities ministers, including Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, against whom lawsuits person been filed should beryllium investigated, and not conscionable a single official. They besides claimed PASOK, with its “artful” proposal, is portion of the coverup