SKAI reveals the magnitude of the looting that takes place every day at the expense of OSE, in a shocking report.

Looting, wire cutting, fires, even stone warfare.

Everyday life on the Greek railways is recorded on camera and the documents are revealing.

Strangers, in plain sight, loot the tracks at the Thebes railway station in every possible and improbable way. All this… “daytime” while the trains pass by.

With their facial features covered, they ignore the drone that records them frame by frame breaking concrete casings to pull the electronic signaling cables.

In this way, they block the remote control and photo-signaling systems.

“This directly means that the boards all turn red, it has no image of the train, so everything has to be done very quickly to avoid problems with a possible accident“, describes Nikos Tsikalakis, President of OSE Workers.

Between the tracks at the Thriasio railway station, the sharpshooters dig and bury themselves in remote control conduits to cut cables. Once they notice the drone, they turn to smoke.

The camera pans to trace their route and inform the police.

“Their purpose is copper, sabotage also enters our minds, we try to follow it” says Yannis Festeridis, head of security at the OSE facilities, adding that the worst thing he saw was that they had thrown a concrete block over a bridge.

“Imagine the train passing by and seeing a concrete block in front of it“, he emphasizes.

These are small groups that have been active for the last year in the wider area of ​​Acharna.

They usually transport and burn the cables next to camps in Aspropyrgos and sell the pure copper to illegal smelters. The interest of scrap circuits has shifted to electromotive, because it has one of the best qualities of hard electrolytic copper.

“In the last week, I must have personally visited around 5 to 6 police stations. Every day the department deals with 10 to 20 such incidents. We immediately see that in the SKA, in the management center, we had all screens turned off” Mr. Festeridis described, among others.

The specific cables on the OSE pillars don’t even have copper! According to officials of the railway organization, the attempt to dislodge them is attributed only to vandalism.

After all, in many cases strangers throw stones at train carriages. Endangering the safety of staff and passengers.

“There are some damages here, which seriously concern us. The summer they passed us, they opened a well and poured flammable material into it. They did not go to steal, but to burn“, describes Mr. Tsikalakis.

In a specific video, the stone war is captured even by children, who then climb the columns.

Their access to the point where the railway passes is quite easy and no one takes care to remove them.

In other cases, vast garbage dumps have been created near the lines. In many cases, strangers set fire to the cables next to the garbage, resulting in fires breaking out like the one recently in Thriassio.

They even steal the rails

It is typical that a car that was spotted in the previous hours in Tavros, by police officers of the relevant department, was carrying half a ton of railway material from track change operations in the wider area.

The three rails weighed half a ton.

Due to the excessive weight, the car broke down while moving in the wider area of ​​Tavros, the perpetrator abandoned it while the police took it to the Moschato police station.

The hundreds of thefts of metal parts and rolling stock have alarmed the OSE administration.

Lately, drones have been used to monitor difficult areas, but although there are cameras in 267 places, the astute have no difficulty avoiding them.