ATHENS: Tens of thousands of people across Greece demonstrated Saturday in solidarity with victims of the country’s worst train tragedy, which claimed 57 lives in 2023 and rattled the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
More than a hundred gatherings are being held in Greece and abroad to demand justice for the victims, most of whom were young students returning from a three-day carnival weekend.
“We are here because, three years after the Tempe disaster, we still don’t know exactly what happened, justice has not yet been served and those responsible are still walking free,” Lydia Pagkali, a 28-year-old woman protesting in Athens, said.
Nearly 40 people will go on trial on March 23, including railway executives and the station master on duty that night. They risk prison sentences of up to 20 years.
“Even today we don’t feel safe taking the train or the metro,” she added.
