Yiannis Souliotis and Maria Voussoula returned with Prime Time’s camera in the Tempi Valley, two years after the tragedy
Two years have passed since the most multiple railway accident in the country, with many questions about the tragedy with the 57 dead remaining unanswered today.
Prime Time’s survey (See all the episode here) With Yiannis Souliotis and Maria Voussoula examine the causes that led to the conflict of the two train in Tempe, the conditions that prevailed on the rail network before February 28, 2023, what happened at the time of the accident, and they also focus on the criminal points.
The research could not miss the loved ones of the people who were tragically killed by the conflict of the two trains in Tempi. The life of those left behind is divided into the before and after. The before was full of beautiful moments and warm hugs, then turned into a constant struggle for justice. While those who came out alive from that devastating night, carrying mental and physical injuries, demand that the truth will come to light.
His father Panagiotis Hadjiharalambous He shows photos of his son’s childhood. When the joy at home was widespread. Who would tell him that his Panos, who had given him his first grandchild a few years ago, would leave the Clean Monday table for yet another route, but would not return again. The 29 -year -old Panagiotis was a companion in the trains and very happy, who finally did a job that filled him.
THE Nikos Chatzivasiliou He is the father of the 26 -year -old Elizabeth. He made an appointment for the interview at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. Where, together with his wife and their second daughter, Marina, Elizabeth, were gone as a rising soprano … Elizabeth has learned that she had been accepted at the Berlin Opera House and would leave Germany that year for Germany.
In his cellphone Elias Papangeli There is a saved photo showing the point where his 19 -year -old daughter was found dead, Anastasia. Wagon 3 … seat 12. “That night she had come to see us. She went with her girlfriends and her friends in Patras at Carnival. And turning to the train because she had a lesson on Wednesday morning. And it became what happened …”
THE Nikos Plakias and his wife Sophia In the accident they lost their twin daughters Thomas and Chrysa and their nieceAnastasia. The three girls, all the first -year students, returned to Thessaloniki after the Clean Monday three days in their hometown, in Kastraki Kalambaka. Their tickets were for the latest wagons but after Larissa several seats were emptied and the three girls chose to move to a 2nd wagon coupe. ”By bus they could not find a ticket. And found a ticket on the fatal train. It never went through our minds … that by putting the kids on the train in the safest medium … that our children could bring us back into the bags. Because so they bring us to the bags ” says Nikos Plakias.
In the crash of the Tempi or Maria Karystianou lost her 19 -year -old daughter Marty. Today it is the central face of the relatives’ struggle to justify their own people.
“My child has been murdered. Me the struggle for her justification is the main one at the moment in my life. The pain exists and will exist until the last moment I close my eyes. I will not do anything about it, there will be and I want to exist, it does not bother me at all. But the justification is a very important part of my daily. Maria Karystianou says.
OR Myrtle She was on the train with her brother -in -law girlfriend Hope. After the accident, Myrsini was in a party for months. From what happened on the horrible night of the accident she remembers anything and her life is no longer the same as hope is missing from her side.
Dramatic situation in Greek trains
During the time of the accident in Tempi the situation on the Greek railway was dramatic. Photoses that regulate the movement of trains on the grid were off. So is the telecommunications, which would allow OSE officials to centrally coordinate the movement of the train and correct any errors of the stations. Many thought it was a matter of time for a fatal railway to happen.
“A railway accident like this, so serious, that has happened in Greece, which is lost 57 people, has been built, as experts say, for many years. To say that it has become a human mistake, or in that particular accident, (10:08) a combination of human errors is an over -extinguishing
“I feel remorse that I urge her to use the train” says to Prime Time’s camera o Antonis PsaropoulosFather of Marty and adds: “On the grounds that by getting on the train you know you will get to your destination for sure. Whatever the driver is done and sleeping and being drunk there is never a chance that a problem will arise. … I was saying these to my daughter lessThe one year before the incident happens and of course I have dogged it … ”
The wounds in his body Nikos Laoutidis They will forever remind him that he came very close to death.
Video Management Handling
According to Antonis Psaropoulos “The video material has been a bad management handling. The videos were not searched, the video train video material was not searched by the loading station and departed, namely the Thessaloniki Trade Station.”
Relatives of victims, lawyers and experts are criticizing those responsible for managing the accident. Brooming and complaints about concealment are concerned with interrogation to date, feed public debates, and are the subject of political controversy.
Source: Skai
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