“The ultimate respect for the people we have lost is respect for the truth,” said in a statement SYRIZA.

As SYRIZA reports, “Mr. Gerapetritis today, once again, tried to either hide it or distort it”.

The SYRIZA announcement in detail:

The ultimate respect for the people we have lost is respect for the truth.

Mr. Gerapetritis today, once again, tried either to hide it or to distort it.

➢ He said that the local remote control center in Larissa was operating normally.
Who is telling the truth?

The minister or yesterday’s official announcement of the OSE which verbatim said: “After the fire of July 2019 in the area of ​​Zahari Larissa, the cables and equipment were destroyed and the remote control of Larissa went completely out of order and was abolished”.
➢ He said that all the electronic systems were working normally at the Larissa station.
Who is telling the truth?

The minister or the audio and video documents that show the previous train of the fatal train also being put on the wrong line and the station master saying that the “flashed the key”, that is, that the indicator on the control panel was flashing minutes before the accident, so the board had a problem?
➢ He said that the infamous Samara-Chrysochoidis contract, 717, was completed by 30% by the SYRIZA government and his own government reached 70%.
Who is telling the truth?

The minister or ERGOSE’s official official reports, according to which in September 2018, 68% of the entire signaling work of the contract had been implemented?
➢ He said that the necessary revision of the problematic contract 717, as well as the forced audit process of the Court of Auditors and EDL took place after 2019.

Who is telling the truth?

The minister or the official evidence that proves that all this was done and completed until July 2019, when the Consortium submitted the studies signed in accordance with the requirements of the EDEL audit and the project could now be completed, within 2020?

So the critical unanswered question is what prevented the signing of the supplementary contract from July 2019 until May 2021?
➢ He said there will be a small extension of the 717 contract.

Who is telling the truth?

The minister who talks about a “small extension” or the official figures that prove that his government has already given not one, not two, but 4 extensions from May 21 to today? So the “small extension” that will exist will be the 5th during the Mitsotakis administration.
➢ He said that the safety valve of the secondary control center on Karolou Street could not have prevented the accident.
Who is telling the truth?

The minister or dozens of high-ranking officials of TRAINOSE and OSE who publicly testify that he could have prevented it, but the secondary control center is completely non-functional since 2020, since after the removal of TRAINOSE there is no possibility of cross-checking the movement of trains in national network.
➢ He said that the OSE is understaffed, but the ND government has made recruitments.
Who is telling the truth?

The Minister, or the official figures that show that under SYRIZA in 2018 the OSE had 1122 employees, as well as an additional 224 employees with individual contracts from ASEP for cleaning and security, while in 2022 the employees are less than 750?

Finally, the worst is that:
➢ The minister said three times that he did not understand the question about the Agreement between the Greek government and TRAINOSE, which the ND government brought to Parliament for a vote and in which, in relation to the previous memorandum of cooperation between the two parties, again on ND, approximately 600 million were given to the private company, while at the same time the obligation of the public to complete the signaling and remote control projects of the network, which existed in the memorandum of cooperation, disappeared.
We are sure that Mr Gerapetritis had no difficulty understanding the question. There is simply no answer. He could admit it.

Because critical questions demand honest answers. And his presence today confirmed that no one can trust the government of Mr. Mitsotakis anymore.

The people we lost unjustly, their families, Greek society are asking for the truth.

No more set-offs, no more cover-ups.