Two “key persons”, two senior employees of the OSE, they are in the “crosshairs” of the prosecutor’s investigation, as they seem to have approved the shift schedule and the placement of the fatal station master in this position.

The two new “key persons” are senior officials, who hierarchically were above inspector Dimitris Nikolaou.

As explained by an OSE source who spoke to SKAI and Elli Kasolis, the inspector makes the proposal about the shifts. The document is sent to the superiors, a signature is entered, in the “blind” usually, the paper goes back, and “all is well”.

The source who spoke to SKAI explained that the mentality of the OSE’s lax regulations is to blame. “The regulations were a joke” he said characteristically, no one was afraid that he would go through a disciplinary process, that he would be held accountable. If they had checked they could have prevented the tragic accident.

“The barrio paper normally doesn’t go through me but now… Let it go, I can’t go into details because I’ll mess up. Everything is under investigation, investigative and prosecutorial authorities have been contacted, I have not been called yet” said one of the inspector’s superiors.

In the case file, there are also important statements for the case, from current and former OSE employees, as well as from police officers who immediately rushed to the scene of the collision.

Autopsy of SKAI in the Tempe tunnel: Empty fire hydrants – non-existent lighting

It is noted that SKAI journalist Christos Nicolaidis performed an autopsy in the railway tunnel of Tempi, where he encountered complete disintegration.

Empty fire hydrants, non-existent lighting and fire detectors… this is the situation in the railway tunnel of Tempe, a few hundred meters from the site of the tragic accident, as revealed by the SKAI autopsy.

And yet if an accident occurs inside the 5 km long tunnel, the work of the rescuers it will be terribly difficult.

Most of the escape routes do not even have fireproof gates, while the company that had undertaken the maintenance of the equipment has been declared bankrupt and has not undertaken any new ones for years.

In the meantime, five of the injured remain in ICU and nine patients are in simple hospitalization, all in the hospital of Larissa, after the horrible train accident.