The three railway workers involved in the tragedy of the Tembosn, the traffic inspector who placed the inexperienced stationmaster on the night shifts, as well as his two colleagues, who left their posts earlier. What the 59-year-old railway worker, who has already been remanded in custody, is putting forward as a line of defense is that he had no idea of ​​remote control as he had not been trained in such a thing.

The traffic inspector and the two station masters are accused of:

  • Disruption of transportation security
  • Serial manslaughter
  • Injuries

According to information, the 3 officers of the OSE received the call today at noon from the appellant investigator to come to the courts of Larissa on Friday morning in order to begin the process of their apology.

According to information they are expected to ask for a deadline to apologize in the beginning to the middle of next week.

At the same time, it is requested that a graphologist be “recruited” for the blanco in the shift receipt-delivery book. As the pre-trial station master has testified, he found after the accident that the book that the employees write when they leave and when they go to their post had been corrected with a blank. The new correction time is 10.30 pm. The remanded stationmaster requests that a scribe be appointed who will ascertain who has made the change and what the change is, that is, what is written under the blank before it is corrected.

In addition, the new element in his defense letter of the 59-year-old is that he did not know how to “read” the light board. According to information, he claimed that he did not have the necessary knowledge but also the competence and experience to manage such a sophisticated technological device. For this reason, he himself states that he was inadequate and was wrongly left on this particular shift.