The controversy is, true, justice and constant enhancement of transportation security, said Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Christos Staikouras in an interview with the ERTNEWS television station.

Asked if the universal request for justice in the Tempi case will be happy, Mr. Staikouras replied:

“I trust justice that she will do her job. It is enough to put aside what we see in public dialogue evolve in recent days: vulgarity, toxicity and tooling. We have to be cool and to work for the best. Constantly! And there is truth and justice and to enhance transport security. “

Asked about the destabilization scenarios, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport said:

“I think what many seeks is to tool a tragic accident, so that they have political speculation on it. And this has been proven today and in the past. That is why everyone must, in a serious way, face reality and help as much as we can the work of justice. Each of his own position of responsibility.

For example: The political responsibility of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is to help the work of EPANAAM, namely the National Organization for the investigation of rail and air accidents and accidents so that there is a finding. This facilitates justice. According to the announcement made by EPANAAM itself, the finding will come out before February 28. In this finding we facilitate and do not seek concealment. The two of the three who have taken over the case are investigators by the European Railway Organization, ERA, and we have even funded EPAAAM significantly to bring in abroad, so that everyone on his own side can be funded. contributes to this case. So, in a nutshell, this is our own field of responsibility, so that we can enhance the work of justice and help it so that it can do its work. “

Mr Staikouras stressed that there are three: Truth, Justice and continuous enhancement of transport safety.

In the same vein, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport added:

“The reality is that, today, from Athens to Thessaloniki, there is also signaling and telecommunications in 80% of the network. In September 2023 we were 100% ready and operational from Athens to Thessaloniki: Signaling, Telephone and ETCs on the line, but we had a 20% disaster in Thessaly, which will be repaired and delivered around the summer of 2026. The department is safely moved to move citizens. At the same time, we have 4 tunnel control centers and 5 teleikos control centers. Today, we also have more staff in OSE than we had a year ago and there are another 140 hires next month.

So we are much safer in our movements from Athens to Thessaloniki and vice versa.

I don’t want to beautify situations, the problems are timeless. We therefore have to deal with in a short time after Tempi too many malfunctions accumulated for decades. We have an action plan agreed with the European Commission, with a time horizon by the end of 2026, which we have already begun to implement it and will have even safer railways until then. “