For the relatives of the 57 victims at Tempe time froze on February 28, 2023. Punch in the stomach are the martyrdoms of those who tried, which as they say, the nightmares haunt them even today. One of them n Dina Magdalianidis where she talks about her life before the accident, about the night of the collision but also about the open wounds on her body and soul.

“First time taking the train”declares Dina Magdalianidis on ERT.

Testimonies that shock, that break hearts. One year today since day when all of Greece froze, 57 people lost their lives and several were seriously injured. Others are still in the ICU and others are struggling with trauma and memories that have changed their lives forever.

“They gave me a lot of medicine, so all I could remember was a train burning”, underlines the multi-traumatized person, Dina Magdalianidis on ERT. “I went out and ran into blacksmiths with aprons and crawled towards a field over there. (..) My first thoughts, as in the accident, were my family”she adds.

Dina Magdalianidis, multi-injured from Tempe it can no longer even serve itself.

“It left me with some permanent damage because I had quite a few fractures all over my body even in vertebrae, neck, waist but the worst was my leg which was almost amputated in the accident”, says the multi-injured person, Dina Magdalianidis to ERT. “When I was independent I had learned to do everything on my own, to work, to spend my time, suddenly I need someone even to bring me water. I can’t be functional”she adds herself.

Pain unbearable, grief everlasting, a void that will never be filled for the relatives of the victims. But at the same time anger, question marks and waiting for justice to be served.

Eleni Vasara said goodbye to her student daughter forever Love Tsaklidou. He hurts every day and talks to SKAI for the lasting struggle that he gives until the guilty are punished.

“I lost my only child, do you understand that?” Can you figure it out? That is, the child went away for one night and did not return. Why didn’t he come back? One issue that certainly concerns and angers us, our relatives, is that the charges for many of them are misdemeanors. That is, it is unthinkable to hear about serial manslaughter. I think about these things and I get angry and I can’t believe how I lost my child”says the Eleni Vasara, mother of 23-year-old Agapi.

Christos Houpas lost his 28-year-old Hope. A girl who was supposed to graduate last year from the School of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki but didn’t make it.

“For the way I am and how they are my family is self-evident. What to Reply; We are horrible. We fight and strive for the truth to shine and for those responsible to be held accountable. Possibly some individuals from charred and others that were debased, possibility that they were alive today. And if they were just injured. Yes, but let them live. So what did (the train) carry?”emphasizes Christos Koupas, father of 28-year-old Elpida.

57 dead… 57 families exterminated… and for the relatives of the victims every day is a memorial.