Trial set in deadly Tempe crash

Nearly three years aft the Tempe train catastrophe that killed 57 people, the trial has been scheduled to statesman connected March 23, 2026, officials said.

Thirty-six defendants will stand earlier the Three-Member Court of Appeals for Felonies, reduced from an archetypal 43, successful transportation with the February 28, 2023, collision betwixt a rider and a freight train adjacent Tempe successful cardinal Greece.

At the top of the database is the 60-year-old Larissa stationmaster, accused of routing the rider train onto the wrong track. Two colleagues who allegedly near work aboriginal and the caput of the Larissa OSE Inspection Department will besides look charges.

The defendants see 11 officials of OSE, Greece’s railway organization, accused of neglecting to instal information systems, and 16 executives from ERGOSE, including erstwhile presidents and CEOs, linked to delays successful completing declaration 717 for the obstruction telemanagement system. Those 16 are besides under probe by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office implicit fiscal aspects of the case.

Moreover, 7 defendants were recovered complicit successful the breach of work for which the erstwhile curate Christos Triantopoulos is being investigated concerning the alteration of the mishap site, a lawsuit handled by the Supreme Court and presently astatine the stage of witness testimonies.

The last 5 defendants successful the main trial are elder officials from Hellenic Train SA, the Transport Ministry, and the Railway Regulatory Authority (RAS), charged with failures successful licensing and supervision of the nationalist obstruction network.

Most look the felony complaint of disrupting obstruction transport, which tin transportation a beingness sentence, on with misdemeanors such arsenic negligent homicide and bodily harm.

The trial will take spot astatine the Gaiopolis league halfway of the University of Thessaly successful Larissa. A abstracted hallway will let the nationalist to travel the proceedings via unrecorded broadcast.