By Antonis Anzoletou

The past week moved at its own pace Tempe disaster with the relatives of the victims to they demand justice and the government to declare that it will be on their side and, as it has done from the beginning, it will facilitate the ongoing investigations. SYRIZA and the opposition as a whole are talking about a cover-up, raising the decibels of the tension. At a time when the polls are on fire and as June 9 approaches, they reflect more accurately the climate that has formed, the “knives have come out of their sheaths” and the case is expected to have several sequels. All these conflicts are polarizing the climate in the run-up to the European elections.

The question that has arisen in recent days is to what extent blue-collar executives and MPs are slowly starting to turn their backs on former minister Kostas Karamanlis. Is there an “internal murmur” about him staying in the party? George Stamatis, Lefteris Ktistakis, Philip Fortomas and George Floridis they distanced themselves from the former Minister of Transport by ringing a “bell” on Piraeus Street. Is there really an issue? Top government sources made it clear that everything that had to be done has been done. From Maximos they have argued many times that they do not agree with the logic that the implementation of the contract is to blame for the accident. They add, in fact, that no one thought to talk about criminal responsibilities in Mati because 112 had not been called.

The same government source pointed out that the justice system will provide all the answers, characterizing as the biggest fake news the one about the gang, adding that this will also be proven by the second expert. Yesterday’s statements by the Prime Minister from Brussels after the completion of the work of the Synod were the occasion to provoke a new conflict with SYRIZA. His initiative Christos Spirtzis to request the establishment of a Special Committee by the Parliament had already sharpened spirits during the week. From Koumoundourou, they reported that “Mr. Mitsotakis’s admission today, that the Commission of Inquiry into the crime of Tempe was made only for the “eyes of the world”, is one more chilling touch on the canvas of the unimaginable cover-up attempted by the government”. The Prime Minister had emphasized to the journalists that based on the climate that prevailed in the parliamentary debate, no one expected the Inquiry in the Parliament to come out with any conclusion.

SYRIZA insists that the judiciary must take the case into its own hands from now on. Pretrial investigation would currently lead to amnesty. Essentially from Koumoundourou with the moves they are making, they are responding in relation to the Commission of Inquiry, which recently ended, that the majority did everything in order not to come to any conclusion, even excluding witnesses.

The subject was also appointed Nikos Androulakis who put SYRIZA in the “frame” as well: “Today we had a series of provocative statements by New Democracy and SYRIZA executives on the tragedy of Tempe, proving that even today they are playing political games. First, Mr. Floridis, who makes a leap of logic talking about the candidacy of Mr. Karamanlis in Serres, as he forgets that the Prime Minister put him on the ballot. It is the responsibility of Mr. Mitsotakis, that Mr. Karamanlis was on the New Democracy ballot and no one else’s. Mr. Spirtzis told us that there is no causal connection between the collision of the trains and the non-implementation of the remote control project, fully adopting the narrative of New Democracy and contradicting the conclusion of both the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Greek experts”.