With reference to the national tragedy of Tempe, the briefing to the political editors began by the government representative, Yiannis Oikonomou. The country is in mourning, he continued, while after expressing the grief of the prime minister and the government, he spoke of the offer of the members of the rescue teams. As he said, the mobilization of the state apparatus was immediate. Emphasis was placed from the first moment on the identification of the bodies and the support of the relatives. Nine bodies have been identified by DNA. Subsequently, Mr. Economou described the actions at the level of the investigation for assigning responsibilities, but also the actions that will highlight the deeper causes of the tragedy in order to prevent it from happening again. At the same time, Mr. Karamanlis, assuming objective political responsibility, submitted his resignation.

Mr. Economou noted that the state has a duty to help the injured, the people who lost everything, we have a duty to take responsibility and do everything to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. We have not been able to eliminate the pathogens we have taken on, we take our share of responsibility. The installation of the security systems has not been completed, answers will be given for all this in the next period.