Workers’ strikes have paralyzed air, maritime and rail transport.
In the accident that occurred on 28. February 2023, 57 people were killed, including numerous students, when the passenger train collided with the cargo near the Tempi Canyon in central Greece.
Although they last two years, the safety failures that led to the accident were not corrected, a separate judicial investigation has not yet been completed, and nobody was convicted of an accident, which further increased the public’s rage.
Protests were held in cities throughout Greece, in one of the largest mass protests in the country in recent years. In the capital of Athens, the protest became violent when a group of young men threw Molotov cocktails on the police and tried to break the barricades in front of the parliament.
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Detonations of tears that fired interventional police force echoed the city center. Prior to that, a large number of protesters gathered at the central Syntagma Square in front of the parliament, shouting “killers” and accusing the state for responsibility for the tragedy.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, whose right government was re-elected after accident in 2023. years, faces repeated criticisms of victims of victims because he did not initiate an investigation into political responsibility. The government denies any guilt and claims to be on the judiciary to investigate the accident.
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Protests reflect the growing rage in Greece, where mistrust of government is deep-rooted after the debt crisis since 2009. until 2018. year, during which millions of citizens remained without salaries and pensions, while public services were completely crashed.
“The government did nothing to bring justice,” Christos Main, a 57-year-old musician who participated in Protest in Athens. “This was not an accident, this was the murder,” he added.
One of the Protestant, who introduced himself as Eva, said she came to pay tribute to the killings, “but also because the government tried to cover the truth.” Business premises were closed, and the theaters canceled the plays.
In publication on Facebook Mitsotakis, he stated that his government would work on the modernization of the railway network and its safety. “That night we saw the most rare side of the country in the national mirror,” he wrote about the night of the accident.
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“Tragic human mistakes met with chronic state incompetence.”
Opposition politicians accuse the Government for concealing evidence and invite is to resign. Next week, parliament will discuss the possibility of establishing the board that will investigate political responsibility for the accident.
According to polls that this year spent the pulse, 82% of Greek believes that an accident is “one of the most important” or “the most important issue in the country”, while 66% of them are dissatisfied with investigations initiated, index.hr.
“Every day ahead of us is shown a monstrous power of corruption,” Maria Karystiano said, whose daughter was killed in an accident, and who is running the Association of Family Victims.
Students shouted “send me a message when you arrive”, which is the last message that many of the deaths sent to their families. In the inscriptions stood: “Greece kills his children.” “We’re here because we’re parents … It could be our children tomorrow,” said a 45-year nurse of Lits.
(Vijesti.ba)
