We mourn with our Greek friends and our thoughts are with the victims and their families,” he tweeted chancellor Olaf Solzreferring to “terrifying news coming from the tragic train accident in Greece». “We wish our Greek friends good strength in these difficult times,” concludes Mr. Soltz.

The Deputy Minister of Housing, Urban Development and Buildings Seren Bartol, who is also the chancellor’s representative in the Hellenic-German Assembly, expressed his condolences for the train tragedy, also in a post on Twitter. “I am shocked by the horrific events. My thoughts are with the dead, their families, the injured and the Greek people, to whom I express our deepest condolences,” Mr. Bartol says in his message and accompanies his post with a photo of a Greek flag flying at half mast.