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    Photos: Greek station master due in court as anger boils over rail disaster

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    Photos: Greek station master due in court as anger boils over rail disaster

    Thousands staged sit-ins and demonstrated to demand justice for the victims


    Published:  March 04, 2023 15:06 AFP

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    Athens: The station master involved in Greece's worst-ever train disaster was due to appear in court on Saturday after mass protests broke out over the crash that killed at least 57 people. Image Credit: AP
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    Thousands of protesters have demonstrated across the country since Tuesday's collision between a passenger train and a freight train, with public anger mounting over government failure to manage the rail network. Image Credit: AFP
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    The 59-year-old station master at Larissa, central Greece, has admitted responsibility for the accident, which saw the two trains run along the same track for several kilometres. Image Credit: AFP
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    The train was carrying many students returning from a holiday weekend and at least nine young people studying at Thessaloniki's Aristotle University were among the dead, while another 26 others were injured. Image Credit: AFP
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    Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is seeking re-election this spring, has blamed the disaster on "tragic human error". But protests blaming government mismanagement continued on Friday in the capital Athens and several major cities across Greece, with more planned for the weekend. Image Credit: Reuters
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    "What happened was not an accident, it was a crime," said Sophia Hatzopoulou, 23, a philosophy student in Thessaloniki who was visibly angry. "We can't watch all this happen and remain indifferent." She added that she and her classmates "knew people who were killed or wounded". "It's as if a part of us were lost." Image Credit: AFP
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    The station master is due to appear in court on Saturday on charges of negligent homicide. He faces life imprisonment if found guilty, but his lawyer has argued that other factors were at play. Image Credit: AFP
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    "My client has assumed his share of responsibility," lawyer Stefanos Pantzartzidis said Thursday. "But we must not focus on a tree when there is a forest behind it." The country's public broadcaster ERT reported that the station master had been appointed to the post only 40 days earlier - and after just three months' training. Image Credit: AP
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    Thousands gathered outside the Athens headquarters of operators Hellenic Train - which took over network operations in 2017 - to protest at decades of failure to improve rail network safety, despite close calls in past years. "Murderers!" the crowd cried out, with some protesters daubing the word on the building's glass facade in red. Image Credit: AFP
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    Hundreds of people observed a minute of silence outside the Greek parliament in tribute to the victims of the disaster. Later Friday, riot police and a small group of protesters clashed in central Athens, on the sidelines of a candle-lit vigil for the victims of the crash. Image Credit: Reuters
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    At the rally in Syntagma Square, adjacent to parliament, officers fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, an AFP reporter said. Around 3,000 people turned out for the demonstration. Image Credit: AFP
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    A similar number demonstrated in Thessaloniki - Greece's second largest city - where police had reported clashes on Thursday with demonstrators throwing stones and petrol bombs. Demonstrations also took place in other Greek cities Friday: about 700 turned out in Larissa, the town closest to the site of the disaster, while 500 demonstrated in the university town of Patros in the southwest Peloponnese, according to police. Image Credit: AFP
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    A fresh demonstration is set to take place in Syntagma Square at 11 am (0900 GMT) on Sunday. Survivors of the crash described scenes of horror and chaos. Some relatives were still desperately awaiting news of missing loved ones. Roubini Leontari, the chief coroner at Larissa's general hospital, told ERT on Thursday that more than 10 people were still unaccounted for, including two Cypriots. Image Credit: AFP
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    Greece's train services were paralysed on Thursday by striking workers arguing that successive administrations' mismanagement of the network had contributed to the fatal collision. That strike continued into Friday and is set to continue for another 48 hours more. Image Credit: AFP
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    Rail unions say safety problems on the Athens-Thessaloniki railway line had been known for years. Legal sources suggested that investigators were considering criminal charges against members of the management of Hellenic Train. Police seized audio files and other items during a raid on the Larissa train station in central Greece, where the crash happened, a judicial source told AFP. Image Credit: Reuters
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    For decades, Greece's 2,552-kilometre (1,585-mile) rail network has been plagued by mismanagement, poor maintenance and obsolete equipment. After the country's transport minister resigned on Wednesday in the wake of the crash, his replacement, Giorgos Gerapetritis, vowed a "complete evaluation of the political system and the state". Image Credit: AP
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    Safety systems on the line are still not fully automated, five years after the state-owned Greek rail operator TrainOSE was privatised and sold to Italy's Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane and became Hellenic Train. Image Credit: AFP

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