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The families of the 57 victims of the Tempi catastrophe await justness successful the forthcoming trial. Credit: AMNAThe highly anticipated proceedings for the Tempi obstruction catastrophe is acceptable to statesman successful Larisa connected March 23, 2026, bringing a measurement of judicial absorption aft a calamity that shook Greece.
The catastrophe occurred connected February 28, 2023, erstwhile a southbound rider bid and a northbound freight bid collided head-on adjacent the Tempi Valley, resulting successful the deaths of 57 people, galore of whom were assemblage students. It was the country’s worst-ever obstruction accident.
Authorities pointed the digit squarely astatine the Larisa presumption maestro connected duty that night. The presumption maestro did so marque the captious mistake of manually routing the rider bid onto the aforesaid way arsenic the oncoming freight train.
Thirty-six non-political individuals volition look proceedings astatine the Three-Member Court of Appeal for Criminal Cases successful Larisa.
However, the ongoing probe has revealed that this azygous quality mistake was lone possible—and catastrophic—due to a cascade of systemic failures.
Subsequent investigations—fueled by immense nationalist outrage and activism from the victims’ families—have pointed to failures, including chronic deficiency of investment, terrible understaffing, and the non-functioning of important information and signaling systems that had been funded by the EU but ne'er implemented.
Allegations of a government cover-up—including the accelerated clearance of the clang tract and demolition of imaginable evidence—have further intensified nationalist anger. The judicial process present targets not conscionable contiguous railway officials, but besides those liable for the chronic information gaps that made the collision possible.
The proceedings is wide viewed arsenic a captious trial of accountability and the regularisation of instrumentality successful Greece.
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