On the occasion of a publication by the newspaper “Vima tis Kyriakis” about the Tempe accident, government sources made a series of remarks, speaking of an “attempt to instrumentalize human suffering”.

In particular, government sources point out the following:

1. The truth is that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations of the Hellenic Police has forwarded to the investigative authorities the complete set of audio recordings of the OSE since 02/03/2023. Therefore, the Justice has in its hands the actual material to conduct its investigation in an efficient manner in search of the truth. The fact of non-alteration is also recognized in the Vima publication itself despite its misleading title.

2. The proof that there was no attempt at state “editing” is the fact that many media (among them the public ERT) presented a report a year ago, i.e. on 03/04/2023, in which it was mentioned that in the conversations that were made public there was another person.

3. Regarding the dimension of “human error”, no one disputes it, as the station master himself has officially taken responsibility for his actions. Therefore he himself has acknowledged the existence of “human error”. From then on, the judiciary is investigating all other aspects of the tragic accident. What is the reason that this particular newspaper opens such an issue, while all sides have agreed on it?

4. It is now obvious that the attempt to instrumentalize human suffering, by creating impressions based on a de facto lie, aims to destabilize and return the country to the period of toxicity and hatred. This attempt will not pass. Let’s let justice do its job impartially and objectively.

The ERT report that confirmed the existence of another person

On 4/3/2023, ERT had proceeded with a revelation about the fatal dialogues that had seen the light of day before the fatal accident in Tempi between the station master of Larissa and the driver of the fatal train. According to Elena Apostolidou’s report, four voices can be heard in the disputed audio document and not three.

As the ERT reporter had transmitted from her own source, in this conversation, in addition to the voices of the Larissa station master, the train driver of the fatal train and the key operator, i.e. the employee of the railway station, there is also a second driver who according to information is him who asks “Santa, I’m leaving” and gets the answer from the station master. He is the conductor of the train from Larissa to Volos and he is talking to the conductor who is from Volos.

According to the same report, the railway station employee who asks “Santa, should I go back” and the station master replies “No, no, leave it as it is because it’s 1564” is a conversation that takes place on a train waiting from Paleofarsala to he goes to Larissa and that’s why he gives him this instruction to go diagonally, that is, to go to the line of Larissa.

ND: The tactic of misleading titles to create impressions is extremely dangerous

“Supposedly a terrible revelation of Sunday’s Step, which he “clothed” with the misleading and false title of editing and cover-up, has been made since March 4, 2023 by the state-owned ERT (https://www.ertnews.gr/eidiseis/ellada /apokalypsi-ert-tesseris-ki-oxi-treis-fones-sto-ixitiko-ntokoumento-tou-stathmarxi-larisas/) and many more media”, is pointed out in a statement from the press office of New Democracy.

“The police responded, clarifying that all the audio material was given to the prosecutors in its entirety and without transcription from the beginning. It is precisely this material that forms the basis of the investigation and prosecutions that have already been carried out by the Court. While pieces of this material have also played in the media of the group that feeds through fake news conspiracy scenarios for a case that has hurt every Greek man and every Greek woman!

The tactic of misleading headlines to create impressions is extremely dangerous, when some people use it on the backs of people who are in pain, rather miserably,” concludes the ND announcement.”

SYRIZA: New Democracy continues to turn a blind eye, it pretends to know nothing

“The new revelations about the attempt to cover up the crime of Tempe by the government of New Democracy, which are published today in Vima tis Kyriaki, are shocking”, reports SYRIZA – PS on the occasion of today’s publication of the newspaper “Vima tis Kyriaki” about the tragedy of Tempe.

According to the announcement of the party’s press office, “not even the sickest mind could conceive of such a scenario and no matter how much Mr. P. Marinakis tried to “throw the ball to the podium” (once again), they remain unanswered the questions about the falsified data. After all, he himself – in fact or not – actually confirmed the content of the publication.”

“New Democracy continues to turn a blind eye. He pretends he doesn’t know anything about editing or editing. It pretends not to see the responsibilities of its Ministers and executives, while at the same time it accuses SYRIZA of inciting violence”, Koumoundourou continues, pointing out:

“The newspaper report presents evidence from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, which proves that there was a “stitching” of conversations, with the obvious purpose of strengthening the government’s narrative of only human error,” adds SYRIZA – PS, then putting “in the government of the alleged excellent” the following questions:

1) Who, when and on whose orders did the stitching together of sentences (editing) from successive conversations that the stationmaster had on the night of the accident with two different train drivers, so that it would appear that the Tempe tragedy was caused solely by human error?

2) Who, when and by whose order altered and falsified evidence, in order to hide the government’s responsibilities and mislead the citizens?

SYRIZA argues that “it is now clear that in this case the only stain that exists does not come from the publications, but from the multiple attempts to cover up the crime by government order”.

In closing, he asks the question “how and by what process did the government obtain information from the criminal case file, to which no one else (is entitled to) have access except the investigator?”