About 700 demonstrators massed outside the Athens headquarters of Greek rail operator Hellenic Train to voice outrage and sorrow over the country’s worst-ever rail disaster. theSun theSundaily collision protest GreeceTrainAccident anger WorldNews
Protesters escape tear gas during a demonstration following a deadly train accident on February 28, near the city of Larissa, central Greece where 38 people died, outside of the Hellenic Train headquarters in Athens, on March 1, 2023. AFPPIX: Anger mounted in Greece yesterday over a fatal train collision that killed at least 57 people, with protests and a national strike as authorities admitted failures overseeing the rail network.
Police said a protest in the northern city of Thessaloniki turned violent, with demonstrators throwing stones and petrol bombs. Authorities have pointed to “human error” in seeking to explain the train collision, in which two carriages were demolished and a buffet car caught fire, trapping many victims inside.
“My client has assumed his share of responsibility. But we must not focus on a tree when there is a forest behind it,” lawyer Stefanos Pantzartzidis said yesterday. Safety systems on the Athens-Thessaloniki line are still not fully automated, five years after the state-owned Greek rail operator Trainose was privatised and sold to Italy’s Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane and became Hellenic Train.
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