To the Special Appellate Investigator the contracted stationmaster apologizes today who had the afternoon shift at the Larissa station, on the day of the fatal train tragedy of Tempi.

The other station master, who is Msi permanent employee of OSE, is scheduled to appear before the investigator tomorrow, Tuesday, March 28. This is the oldest station master whose shift ended at 11pm but reportedly left earlier.

At the same timenext week the traffic inspector is also expected to apologize.

The stationmasters are charged with felony obstruction of traffic, manslaughter and aggravated assault.

What will they support in their apologies?

According to what has become known, the contract worker is expected to argue that his shift ended at 10 pm and that he left at 10:15, as he is not entitled to overtime.

The former station master looks set to claim that his shift ended at 11pm but even if he had been there until 11, he could not have done anything to prevent the tragedy as train 62 arrived at Larissa station at 11.02 in the evening.

Next Thursday, March 30 the inspector’s apology, who is expected to claim that he had asked for two people to be present on the shift, and until 11 p.m. The inspector’s apology will be made with an 80-page memorandum.

Regarding the case file, new evidence have been added which emerged from the statements of Hellenic Train and OSE trade unionists, as well as the multi-page report of the Transparency Authority inspectors on the shortcomings and problems in the rail network, as well as the course of the disputed contract 717, which is signed by two auditors and compiled on September 27, 2021.