The Plenum of Appeals of Larissa is meeting tomorrow, in order for 21, in total, senior judges, to choose the two appellate investigators who will henceforth run the investigations after the initiative to upgrade the investigations, made by the head of the Larissa Appellate Prosecutor’s Office Stamatis Daskalopoulos, who supervises from the first moment the interrogations in their entirety by order of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Isidoros Dogiakos.

The investigation is proceeding at a rapid pace and three other persons have already been added to the list of defendants, against whom criminal charges have been brought for disrupting the safety of transport, which is a felony with penalties ranging from ten years to life, as well as for the offenses of homicide and bodily harm against confluence which are misdemeanors.
The prosecutions were practiced against the OSE inspector who put the unsuitable stationmaster of Larissa on the night shift who has already been remanded in custody, but also by two station masters who were supposed to be present until 11 at night and left earlier abandoning their post.

Nine days after the national tragedy, however, new information comes to light from the journalistic investigation: Thus, in smaller station offices, such as those of Nei Pori and Kalambaka, the 59-year-old station master was scheduled to do shifts in March Vasilis Samaras who was on duty in Larissa and is now in custody for the national tragedy of Tempe.

According to the revealing report of Christos Nikolaidis, who has been in Larissa since the first hours after the accident, the shift document is in the hands of the investigator. As it turns out, the only shifts that the inexperienced station master did in Larissa were the five nights close to the three days of Clean Monday, that is, he covered the days off of his other, more experienced colleagues.

At the same time, in the public (from protothema.gr), the inspector’s report came Dimitrios Nikolaou.

Dimitris Nikolaou also described it how the recruitment system worksthe training and shifts of station masters.

“The driver certainly realized that he had come on the descent line and he would have to wonder why he didn’t get model 1001. This particular driver Georgios Koutsoubasas far as I know, he was not working on the Athens-Thessaloniki line for the last time and he recently came back,” he said.

He also points out that “when at 01:15 I met him Vasilis SamarasI asked him why he stayed alone, while there was a stationmaster, he answered that Pavlopoulos handed it over to him and left around 21:45 to 21:50. I asked Pavlopoulos again what time he left, and he replied that he delivered normally without specifying an exact time. I think that if Pavlopoulos secured even train 2597maybe the accident could have been avoided…”.

In fact, in the last few days this particular inspector found himself in the “eye of the cyclone” and why immediately after the tragedy he took a month’s sick leave from the hospital in Volos, because he had a problem with his back.

At the same time, the demonstrations and protests about the accident continue: New gatherings took place today in Athens, Thessaloniki and Patras, while new mobilizations are planned for the next few days. However, the stories of the victims, as well as the stories of people who managed to get out alive from the burning trains, still cause emotion. Typical is the story of Evdokia Tsaglis, in Sky, who said, among other things: “I was in the third, literally second passenger car. What can I tell you how I am… It has nothing to do with me. I feel too young to talk about what I have suffered physically in front of this huge mental fracture that we have all suffered together. It is an entire country mourning a mass loss of souls. I am here to share my faith with you. This energy is not destroyed and these souls are still there, even though they are not with us.”