That the charge of tampering with the site of the fatal train accident in Tempi be upgraded to a felony, and that additional criminal prosecution in the degree of felony be brought against the former Regional Governor of Thessaly and government officials, requested at noon on Monday from the Judicial Authorities of Larissa, the Deputy Parliamentary Representative and Member of Parliament for Larissa of SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance Mr. Vassilis Kokkalis and the Head of Justice Department and Member of Parliament for Corfu of SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance Mr. Alexandros Avlonitis.

The two officers of the Opposition Officer met with two Appellants’ Deputy Prosecutors and informed them thoroughly of their request, submitting the relevant evidence.

Leaving the Larissa Courthouse, they made the following statements:

Vasilis Kokkalis: “As is well known, SYRIZA will submit a request for a preliminary investigation committee for involvement in the crime of Tempe. A misdemeanor which was also characterized as a criminal act by the Larissa Appeals Prosecutor. Today we asked for the upgrade – completion of the charge to a felony, because with a second crime, with Greek public money from the Recovery Fund, they covered up – covered up the issue of Tempi. We requested additional criminal prosecution in the degree of felony for Mr. Agorastos and for two former deputy ministers – ministers because the embezzlement was done with the money of the Greek people. With our request, we also ask for the removal of the telephone confidentiality of all those responsible who were at the scene of the accident immediately after… The connection of the money that was wasted to make the patch constitutes criminal infidelity”.

Alexandros Avlonitis: “We want to express in this way that we will continue, from the day the pre-investigation committee ended, the investigation. Research is done page by page, word by word. We are committed – and I am conveying exactly the wish of the president of our party – that until this case ends, we will also follow it as lawyers and within this context we have come today to file this application so that the charge will be upgraded to a felony and at the same time to include in the context of the investigation the persons of Mr. Tsakiris and Mr. Papathanasis who signed the relevant administrative acts with which they paid 642,000 euros to the companies that undertook the transportation of all the debris of the two wagons, the excavating, the excavating and the transfer of 300 tons of soil, with the result that not only the legal order and the criminal law will be affected, but also the souls of the parents who lost 57 children and will obscure every possible effort of science and justice, to establish the cause in which about 30 people were burnt to death. We are obliged to our souls, to our qualities as parliamentarians and as a party, to do everything possible for the truth to shine.”