Victim’s mother present at one of them – Black balloons and banners with slogans demanding responsibility for the tragedy in Tempi make up the image of the numerous mobilizations in various regions of Greece
Protest marches and gatherings of young children for the tragedy in Tempe are carried out in various regions of Greece.
Course protest was carried out by pupils and students at center of Athens for the fatal accident in Tempe.
Protesters wrote the word “murderers” in red paint outside the company’s offices and unfurled a black banner in memory of the dead.
The march started from the Propylaia, reached the Parliament, where a sit-in protest was held and then headed to the offices of Hellenic Train.
In the mobilization they participated student associations, students and collectives.
Black balloons and banners with slogans calling for accountability for the tragic event made up the image of the numerous mobilization.
“For the children in Tempi… For their families… And for us…” stated the call of the Student Coordination Committee of Athens.
“This crime should not be covered up. We will be the voice of all the dead” reads the student banner.
In a statement issued by the students, they state:
“The great mobilization concerns the prescribed crime in Tempe that claimed the lives of dozens of young people and students. The decisions and resolutions mention, among other things, the enormous long-term responsibilities of all governments and the company, as well as the enormous rage of all the students of the country that overflows and is expressed through these competitive mobilizations. At the same time, the following slogans are mentioned for the mobilization THEIR PROFITS – OUR DEAD We will be the voice of all the dead! – Prescribed crime will not be covered up!”
Students of Thessaloniki send their own resounding message about the accident in Tempi
Students from Thessaloniki and neighboring cities sent their own resounding message about the train accident in Tempi, with a series of actions in their schools.
In the 5th GEL of Kalamaria, the students proceeded to occupy their school, each writing a word or phrase on papers. At the 19th GEL of Thessaloniki, they formed the phrase “12 minutes” with their bags, that is, how long the two trains were on the same railway line.
In the 2nd GEL of Polichni, the students formed the word anger with their bags, in the forecourt, while in the 1st GEL of Agios Athanasios, the students hung a banner with the phrase “take me my child when you arrive”, while in the 4th GEL of Evosmos, the students wrote on their banners: “let’s not cover up this crime, let’s be the voice of all the dead”.
They also occupied the 1st GEL of Pylaia, with the slogan “never again”, while at the Experimental GEL of Neapolis, the students formed the word “Have you arrived?” with their bags.
In the 4th GEL of Katerinis, among the banners they made, the students wrote on one of them: “they were people, not tickets”. At the Nikitis High School, the students formed with their bags the slogan “take it when you arrive” and at the 4th GEL Stavroupoli students wrote on the board that “what happened will not be forgotten, our anger becomes a river”.
Finally, at the 2nd GEL Kordelio, the students formed the phrase: “take when you arrive” with their bags.
In an atmosphere of emotion, the mobilization of students in Karditsa for the tragedy in Tempi – Victim’s mother present
A particularly large mobilization of school students in the prefecture of Karditsa for the tragedy in Tempe with hundreds of students initially gathering in the city’s central square and then marching to the train station on the morning of Friday, March 3.
According to a report by KarditsaLive.Net, at least 13 Secondary Education schools are under occupation or abstaining from classes on Friday morning. The children arrived from their schools to the assembly point holding banners and placards and shouting slogans about the tragic accident in Tempi that shocked the whole country. Most of them reduced the collision of the two trains to crime and murder, which cost the lives of dozens of young people.
A “heavy” and emotionally charged atmosphere was experienced by those who participated in the morning mobilization, when the students’ march reached the Karditsa railway station.
The tracks were filled with flowers and candles from the children who took part in the student march and among them, a tragic figure, the mother of the deceased Vaius who drowned in the embraces of the students, on the railway tracks. No one’s eyes were left dry and no one’s soul was left untouched.
On the flyover, the hanging banners denounced a crime and raised unanswered questions about a tragedy that three days later no one can realize.
The large student march had started earlier from the central square of Karditsa. One of the largest of its kind that the city has seen. Among the children and many teachers. With banners and bouquets in hand, they headed to the station. Even as they shouted slogans for justice for the victims and their families, the pain was pervasive.
Traffic officials were regulating the traffic facilitating the transition to the destination. There was no other reason for their presence. It was a march of honor in memory of the victims. A march that “shouted” with its participation that we should never experience something like this again and that the new generation is determined not to allow it to happen again.
The students reached the station and flooded the surrounding areas. The mother of the fellow citizen found the open arms of hundreds of children who, for some unimaginable moments, all became her children.
The mobilization ended at 12 p.m.
Mobilization in Volos as well
The young people of Volos shouted that such accidents should never happen again, while the students of the Music School, from which the student had graduated, the only survivor of the first carriage of the train, who was seriously injured in the ICU, were shocked. Larissa General Hospital according to a magnesianews.gr publication.
Pupils and students with placards in their hands crossed the whole city and ended up at OSE Volos.
Student protest in Patras as well
Holding black balloons in their hands and banners, schoolchildren and students hold a protest rally in the heart of Patras, in Georgiou Square, for the tragedy in Tempi with the fatal train accident.
According to a pelop.gr article, Georgiou Square was filled early on with young people protesting mutely while a march is expected to follow.
The youth of the KKE regarding the student and student mobilizations on the occasion of the tragedy in Tempi notes: “We salute the thousands of students of Patras who these days turn the anger they feel about the crime in Tempi into a river of struggle, demanding that it not be left no one goes unpunished. We especially salute the students of the city who today, through their 5-member and 15-member decisions, against threats, close the schools and take to the streets en masse and organized.
We salute the parents and teachers who stand by their children and students from the first moment.
We denounce the unacceptable attitude of some managers and teachers in schools of Patras, who against the righteous anger of the students employ reactionary views and methods to prevent the participation of students in the mobilization of the Coordination Committee of Students of Patras and the Student Associations at 12:00 pm in Georgiou Square .
We support the students and shout with them “This crime should not be covered up, we will be the voice of all the dead”.
His “Let’s go wherever it goes…” mentality was tested. Now it’s time to go another way!”.
“Send me when you arrive, ok mom”: Larissa youth protest over the tragedy in Tempti
The students of Larissa also went on a protest rally at noon on Friday (3/3) for the tragedy in Tempe.
“Send me when you arrive, ok mom”, “it was a bad time”, “cowards, fatal and clueless if we are expecting maybe some death…” are some of the slogans they write on their banners.
Other citizens are also gathered at the scene. People feel that something should be done after this accident by expressing their anger in this way.
It is noted that many of the victims were young children, students traveling by train.
Photos – videos from skai.gr, magnesianews.gr, pelop.gr and KarditsaLive.Net
Cover photo: Intime News
Source: Skai
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