We will lift every stone, said the president of the EPAAAM Railway Sector – “The Tempe tragedy has been built for many years by criminal errors and omissions”
On February 27th, the Railway and Air Traffic Investigation Agency will be released. TempiChristos Papadimitriou, president of his railway sector told SKAI OPANAAM.
“Unfortunately, there was a need to talk about things that public opinion does not know,” Mr Papadimitriou said, explaining that although European directive has provided for the creation of a rail and air accident in every Member State in 2014, Greece did not.
EPANAAM, he said, was set up in January 2023, before the Tempe tragedy, with the merger of the two authorities for rail and air accidents, but has not been staffed.
When the accident occurred on February 28, 2023, he explained, took over the duty of field investigation officers who did not have the know -how to manage the matter in the way they should.
EPANAAM was staffed in September 2023, but there was no rail investigator in Greece, no one had been trained, as Mr Papadimitriou said. With letters sent by himself, we finally assisted the European Railway Organization that sent two senior executives to Greece.
He continued: “The unthinkable tragedy of Tempi has been built for many years by a series of criminal errors and omissions. In the finding we will highlight these mistakes and omissions with full independence. As soon as I took over, the only discomfort I had by the minister was if he could help more. “
Referring to the research project done by the Agency, he noted that Sweden’s experts have been requested, the universities of Pisa and Ghent and from a German Institute on various issues related to the accident, from the fire protection of the seats to the reasons. And whether it can be justified by silicone oils or not.
“Unfortunately, valuable time was lost and the management we needed in the time it needed” and added: “OSE started with 3,200 staff and after the memorandums reached 590 people, started having more than 500 stations and the Tempi period. He had 117. We are talking about heroes, railway officials are heroes, they need to work and 29 days without a day off in full violation of labor law. There was no staff competence. “
For the contracts for which he has mentioned, he said that “they should have been completed many years before Tempi”.
Speaking about EPANAAM’s work, he said: “Our staff is not sleeping, we have a sacred duty to investigate the Tempe’s accident towards relatives. I met the father of the Tempi victim who is also my colleague and told me ‘I want you to do your job’, “said Mr. Papadimitriou.
And he went on to say: “My duty is to demonstrate as much as I can the systemic mistakes that have led to this accident, so that these 57 people and this lad of Gerasimos who still struggles have not lost their lives for no reason. Be the last dead on the Greek railway. We will lift every stone. “
My only concern and that’s why I came out that the conflict as a conflict is something terrible, which should not be again, said Papadimitriou.
He added that “it is understood if the merchant train was illegal cargo is very serious and we are investigating this” and explained that the videos of artificial intelligence is analyzed to determine if this flame that reaches 80 meters and lasts 8 seconds justified by Silicone oils.
Source: Skai
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