Tens of Thousands of Protesters in Greece on Sunday Demanded Justice for the 57 Victims of the Nation’s Deadliest Rail Disaster in 2023.
Demonstrations Broke Out in 97 Cities in Greeces and 13Locations Abroad Marches within the Largest Greek Cities of Athens and Thessaloniki Had about 30,000 and 16,000 demonstrators Respectively.
“What is Happening Today is Majestic,” Pavlos Aslanidis, The Father of a Victim, Told the Media Inthessaloniki “This Is Now A Global Fight,” He Added, Referring to The Protests Abroad.
“My Son’s Soul must be elated… I Believe we will win. We have ranked the state against us, but we will win. ”
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Protests Across Greece Were Mostly Peaceful Other Than Incidents of People Attacking The Police Force With Rocks And Flares, And The Authorities Responding with Tear Gas and Flash-Bang Grenades However, Thesis Inciseded Lasted Just for a Feew Minutes.
DW’s Sofia Kleftaki, that Went to the demo in Athens, Said One Individual What Wounded in Such Clashes.
Much of Central Athens was obstructed by the demo.
“Two Years after the Tragedy, No One Has Been Punished, No One is in Prison,” Ilias Papangelis, Whose 18-Year-Old Daughter was Among Those Killed, Told the Crowd of Protesters.
“This has been the most Mafia-Like Cover-Up Operation,” Maria Karystianou, Whose Daughter Died within the Crash, Told the Athens Protesters Marching Outside the Parliament Building Sunday.
Demonstrators Hero Placards and Shouted “I have no oxygen” – The Chilling Last Words of Karystianou’s Daughter Who Had Called the 112 European Emergency Number to Report Theincident Man within the Group Chanted “Murderers!”
Oth Banners Read: “We Don’t Forget, We Don’t Forgive” and “Justice, Not Forgetting.” Some Accused the Government of Having Blood on Their Hands.
More objects Were Sted in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Helsinki, Nicosia, Reykjavik and Valetta, Malta.
About the Calamity
The Disaster Happened on February 28, 2023 When A Passenger Train Collided Head-on With A Freight Train After Both Had Been Mistakly Put on the Same Track.
Several rumors have truly arished understanding regarding what introduced concerning the Range of the Calamity.
Families of the Victims and Protesters Believe the Government is concealing proof and working a non -transparent examination whereas making an attempt to pin the calamity on the terminal masters.
Many Believe that some 30 of the 57 Victims had actualy survorted the preliminary high-speed nevertheless handed away in a hearth triggered by hazardous chemical compounds on-board the merchandise prepare.
Leaks from A Report Funded by Victims’ Families Seem to Corroborate that the Freight Train was Carrying an Illegal Load of Explosive Chemicals.
Greeks Still Await a Trial for the Disaster, a Process which precise be pressed again by a Lengththy Examination, Hold-ups in Records by Technological Professional, and Brand-news to the Witness Checklist From the Team of Survivors and Targets.
MK/WD (AFP, Reuters, AP)
