The station manager allegedly responsible for the collision of several trains in Greece that killed 57 people will remain in prison until trial, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency announced.
The 59-year-old man, who has already claimed responsibility for the error, is charged with alleged responsibility for “the death of a large number of people”, a crime punishable with a penalty ranging from ten years in prison to imprisonment. life. according to the Greek Court of Justice cited by AFP.
The rail accident that occurred on Tuesday caused 57 victims, having been considered the most serious rail accident in Greece.
A few days after the accident, audio was broadcast in which the driver of one of the trains involved in the tragic accident is instructed by the Larissa city station manager to proceed and ignore a red light.
According to the Greek newspaper Proto Thema, the order did not sound strange to the driver since the signaling system on the train tracks has been out of order.
In a second conversation, although disseminated by the authorities, the same Larissa station manager ordered an employee to keep the two trains on the same track.
For several kilometers, the two trains traveled the same line that connects Athens with Thessaloniki, the two largest cities in the country, and ended up colliding head-on near the city of Larissa.
Initially, the stationmaster denied any error saying it was a technical glitch, but later admitted to failing.
The situation forced the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to apologize to the families of the victims of the railway accident, after several protests, such as the one today in Athens, where there were violent clashes with demonstrators who set fire to garbage bins and They threw ‘Molotov cocktails’ at security agents, who responded with tear gas.
Source: TSF
