The incident with her near collision of two trains near the station of Aghii Anargyri it was “serious only in theory, in practice there was no danger for anyone” said Deputy Minister of Transport Vassilis Economou speaking to SKAI.

He mentioned that there are safety valves in the system, which worked, and that due to the works in Sepolia, the communication between the stations was not done by remote control, but the station masters communicated with each other using the old system.

“There is a framework of procedures that ensures the safety of the medium” said Mr. Economou characteristically and added that the three station masters immediately realized what happened and stopped the train.

One of the four station masters showed negligence, that’s why there was prosecutorial intervention and the specific station master was taken out of service, added Mr. Economou.

“Satanic coincidences are good for novels. We are talking about world security here. Tempe was a tragic, very bad incident. But we don’t have such cases,” he said.

“There is a safety valve, there are many levels of communication between the train drivers and the station masters, it’s not that I fell asleep, I didn’t do my job well, the trains crash. The mechanism worked safely, we didn’t do voodoo,” he said characteristically.

For the train that crashed into fallen trees near Aphidnes he said that “these are the difficulties that the railway faces every day with the endless kilometers of network”.