I visited Mr. Papangelis in his office in Athens. On his office among other things, handwritten handwriting with red pen related to the accident. Thoughts and information that attempts daily to put in order. A Sisyphus race. Militant and willing to talk about everything. His reason:

“I am the father of Anastasia Papangeli who killed her in Tempi on February 28, 2023. In this tragic accident that is very responsible for many and that we still have no point that we will be justified in this case.

I mean the loss is so heavy and so heavy that it will never be replenished. I remember my little kid, my Anastasia every day. I remember her laughs, her hugs, her kisses, her humor. I feel, because I won’t see it again, that I have a hole in the part of my heart. And when I walk the street and think about it, my legs bend. “

The account of the two years

“Two years later, in Greece that has called justice in Europe and around the world and gave so many other values, but there is no punishment for this accident. As you hear, no one punished. They are all in their homes, they are all with their families and we are looking for what went wrong. We are looking to find elements, to help justice. A righteousness that because it is appointed and everyone knows this and because both the prime minister and the government says to us, “Let do nothing, the justice will solve it”, but the justice of what it seemed to obstruct, instead of looking for it, instead of getting the way to find themselves. “

How does the state sympathize with the relatives of the victims? Do they have psychological, financial support? Were they supported and supported in some way in general, such as in Germany in similar situations?

“The state is against us, the state and the whole government, because it is as if we were to blame. So they have made us feel. In the first semester, that is, from April to September 2023, nothing was heard about Tempi and the collision and trains. Then we learned that the media had been ordered – which the government funded to talk all day about her work – not to hear the word “tempy” and the word “trains”. The reason is because it was an election year. In June 2023 we had elections. Then it was summer and then some people started dealing with Tempi. “

How does the Association that have founded survivors and relatives of victims under the name “TEMBI 2023 – Association of Attracts”?

“We’re looking to find elements. Various elements that justice should find in itself, but justice is naked. Elements related to conflict, elements related to the explosion. Elements related to all this attempt to hide and conceal and hooded. Since then, the figures are too many, although the government claims daily and at every opportunity that they have nothing to cover up, but they do not help to solve the case … You would also see the videos lately. You would hear that too many thousands of evidence gathered by previous investigator Mrs Sourla were not included in the case file. And in a question argued by relatives in the investigator why they were not included, he said that “I forgot them”! This is what the investigator said. The person responsible for the tragedy of the Tempi managed to clarify this whole case. “

Significant unanswered questions

“All of these cases, hidden cases, those that the government hides must be clarified. So why did the joke happen and why did it start immediately from 02:00 – 03:00 on the morning of March 1st? It is not justified in any crime environment. That night in Tempi were all free. There were people who were neither rescuers, nor firefighters, no police officers. Unknown who still do not know who they were, who were looking for the wagons and we do not know why this was done. There were too many cubic feet, 300 trucks and went to other places before it even dawned and even saw what happened around it. Why did it take place at night? And why did the loaders and trucks transport soil all night? It was later discovered that these soils also included the tissues of the children, the people who were killed that night. This is a sacred! It didn’t have to be done. It had to dawn, guard the space, go to the researchers to see what was going on and then to do all this. Toxicological examinations were not taken by the victims, nor from the surroundings. This became one and a half months later, and yet, although it had been a month and a half, a xylene was found (this is a substance, which is mainly used as a solvent) 400 times. Unjustified for the area. By order of Mr Bakayim’s investigator, the histological material had been gathered to cross the intersection. Why for such a crime, and can be kept at minus 80 degrees Celsius? Should be maintained. Because one might have a doubt if the coffins were not opened. A parent may have wanted after a while, with a clear mind, because in the first time we are all shocked, we could not think clearly, we didn’t know what had happened to us – a parent may want to do an identification again for his child. Now this opportunity was lost. No protocol was observed that night. None. Neither by forensic experts, nor from the Justice, the Prosecutor, nor from the rescuers, nor from the Fire Brigade, the Police. Everyone did what he was down. “

Why were the protocols not adhered to and why weren’t coordinated actions taken?

“Maybe that night and up to the point of the bazama, maybe in the early hours it was a loud shock – because in our country, fortunately and I wish it never happened again – we haven’t learned to face such great disasters. It may really happen this crap because they didn’t know what and how. But the removal of the soil is not justified and their transfer to other places. We discovered it after a year and a half. And if the government says ‘that we do not want to cover up, we are with you’, since they knew we are looking for these soil, because within this time they didn’t tell us “there are the soil there, go to see them” and we discovered them by chance? “

What is the government afraid of? What does not want to be revealed?

“He is scared of a dark role – and not only this government, but all governments. We read them every day and hear them. The pathological relationship between government power every time with the businessmen doing the railways, with the starvation they take, with facilities. There are also the causes of the accident. Judging from what we read, that is, the companies that have undertaken to build the electronic railway systems in Greece are five companies and the software between them do not go hand in hand. Many extensions were given for no reason, no fines were imposed. Because at the time the companies themselves had set that the projects would end, instead of fines that did not hand over the project as they should, they gave them subsidies. So all this ill relationship arrived that night that no security system, neither a teleikos, nor the communication between drivers, no signaling, nor automatic braking. Nothing was working that night. In addition, due to the austerity, the financial crisis had begun a deforestation on the railways, and while it should operate with 2,000 or 3,000 employees, stations, etc., it works today when we are talking about 600 to 700 employees. And this leads to a misconduct of their duties, overtime, exhaustion.

And let’s also say about the commander that he was placed there on a crucial night with a lot of traffic. A man who had no experience and was a mistake left alone to take the shift that night. Now who placed him there? They don’t even tell us that. While not qualified, he went to this position. Also this commander, that night, had a console in front of him. When an employee, you remove his tools so that he can do his job, it is a given that he will not do it right, that he will make a mistake. So didn’t even work the local management that this table could give it, because half of the lights were burned by what was heard and from what we were told. “

The message to fellow citizens

“I have thought about the last day of the courts to hear the penalties and one will eat five years, another seven, another for twelve years. I don’t know and I don’t think I’ll be happy because when I go back home, my child’s room will be empty. But all those who have been blamed must be punished for not happening again, because other generations are coming. So what we want is to punish all those responsible and change the culture of our country. That is, not to be of grossness and economic benefit and not to calculate human life. All of this must start from education, from homes, from every parent. We need to change the way Members are elected. They are not obliged to the country’s economic factors, so that after being elected after doing what these factors tell them. Justice must elect its leadership on its own, so that it is not at the service of the government, the Prime Minister, as it is today. They have to change a lot. The country is in a darkness. We have to get out of the dark. We have to get to light. We need to breathe oxygen. They stole us the oxygen of our children that night. They also call our own oxygen every day. That has to change. “