The president of the KO of the New Left, Alexis Haritsis, spoke today in Parliament about a “collective trauma that has not been closed” because “justice is not being served”.

He recalled that “Mr. Mitsotakis promised on March 21, 2023 that he would make sure “we take a big searchlight and shine a lot of light” on exactly what happened”, stressing that “instead of a searchlight, he took a carpet to hide all the responsibilities under it” and the government’s omissions that led to this crime.”

“One year since that day when 57 souls never reached their destination. From the day when 57 families and with them the whole country were plunged into mourning. Most of them, young people, students. Young children. With dreams and hopes that were interrupted violently, wildly, in the noise of the collision of the two trains, in the flash of ignition and fire,” he said, adding that “there are no words sufficient to address the relatives of the victims” and “there are no words sufficient to apologize to the State, the State”.

Continuing, Al. Haritsis criticized the non-establishment of a “pre-investigative committee”, “with the sole responsibility of the parliamentary majority”, underlining that “the ND preferred to go to a Commission of Inquiry and in fact for so many years so that the responsibilities would be diffused”.

As far as the Inquiry is concerned, he said that even in it, instead of examining “the slightest available evidence”, the government “defiantly” chose not to call “important witnesses, not to let even those who were called to answer essential questions ». “Let the case end and be closed bloodlessly for your party and your ministers,” he said characteristically, while referring, among other things, to the prime minister who “hurried to make a speech to tell us that it was a “human error”” but also to responsible minister Mr. Karamanlis who “a few days before the tragic incident, was telling us from the ministerial offices that it is a shame to raise the issue of safety on trains”, accusing him of “cheating and underestimating the intelligence of the citizens”.

He also referred to, “unheard of for a train accident”, “immediately altering the scene of the accident” and brought up the issue of the government’s “attempted cover-up”, declaring: “Don’t think you’re going to get that. Don’t think that we’re going to give you the slightest leeway to do it.”

“We will not leave you. We will do everything in our power for it. And as the students who went to Tempe shout, as the people protesting today, we make a promise: The crime in Tempe will not be forgotten. Eventually Justice will be served” he concluded.