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The Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, asked the country’s Supreme Court on Monday in a letter to give top priority to the investigation into the rail accident that on March 1, which left 57 fatalities. In parallel, the remains of the accident were cleared, while public officials called a new strike for Wednesday.
The indignation runs through Greece, while close to the Government of the conservative Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The prime minister wrote a letter to the country’s Supreme Court on Monday to request “highest priority” in the investigation into the rail accident that on March 1 left 57 deaths in the north of the country, many of them students.
“The Greek people want the criminal incidents related to this tragic accident to be clarified immediately (…) I ask you to give priority to these cases and, if you deem it necessary, dedicate an investigation at the highest possible level into what happened,” he wrote. in the letter the prime minister. Mitsotakis also spoke of the search for possible “systematic errors in the railway sector.”
An obligatory speech given the seriousness of an accident that has revealed the decadent state of the country’s railway system and that has fueled outrage throughout the country, even more so after Mitsotakis initially alluded to human error as the cause of the accident. .
Certainly, there was and the station manager, who did not divert one of the trains that collided head-on, has already recognized that failure. But Greek society demands greater responsibilities due to the lack of modernization and the correct functioning of the railway structures.
For this reason, on Sunday the prime minister had to apologize on his profile on the social network Facebook before those first statements. “We cannot, we do not want to and we must not hide behind human error,” Mitsotakis said.
Raising of the remains and request for European help
Meanwhile, recovery teams have already removed the last sections of the material debris left by the accident in Tempe, 375 kilometers north of Athens. In turn, the Greek government has asked its European neighbors for help to improve the safety procedures of its rail network. They will also seek European funds to improve the infrastructure.
This morning I discussed with PM @kmitsotakis further technical support that the EU can provide to Greece to modernize its railways and improve their safety.
Commission and @ERA_railways experts will travel this week to Athens.
Rail safety is paramount.
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) March 6, 2023
In response to this call, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, published on her Twitter profile that she had discussed this aid with the Greek Prime Minister and that this week a group of experts from the European Union Railway Agency will visit the country.
New protests in Greece
This Monday the union of public officials called a new 24-hour strike for Wednesday, one in which they seek to ask the State to assume its responsibility in the accident and to raise their voices against privatizations in the railway sector.
In parallel, the sixth consecutive day of the railway strike has already passed, due to which the trains do not circulate through the Greek territory.
Later, the Panhellenic Federation of Sailors also joined the national strike, so the ships will not leave port throughout the country on Wednesday.
The call includes a large march through the center of the capital Athens. All this amid criticism of police violence during the various protests after the accident.
With EFE, AP and local media
