Trial over Greece’s worst train crash set for March next year

A long-awaited trial into Greece’s worst train clang that killed 57 radical successful 2023 will unfastened connected March 23 adjacent year, a source successful the Larissa prosecutor’s bureau told AFP Tuesday.

The prosecutor’s bureau successful the cardinal Greek city, where the trial will beryllium held, has called for 36 radical to beryllium enactment connected trial, including railway executives and the stationmaster connected work the nighttime of the February 28, 2023 crash.

They look charges including involuntary manslaughter and negligence.

Others standing trial see the erstwhile president of the Regulatory Authority for Railways, a erstwhile enforcement of the railway institution OSE which is liable for web maintenance, and elder transport ministry officials.

They look sentences of up to 20 years successful prison.

The tribunal will besides prosecute two executives of the Greek railway’s Italian-owned operating institution Hellenic Train for insignificant offences.

Separately, two elder politicians including the erstwhile transport curate besides look justness by a special court.

But they look lone misdemeanour charges, which has infuriated victims’ relatives.

Fifty-seven people, astir of them young students, were killed successful February 2023 when a rider train and a freight train collided adjacent Tempe, cardinal Greece, having been allowed to tally connected the aforesaid track for 12 minutes.

The tragedy sparked workers’ strikes and hundreds of protests successful Greece and abroad, denouncing the country’s nonaccomplishment to decently analyse the accident.

Opinion polls person shown astir 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.

Source: AFP