Today, Wednesday, February 20, the debate on the conclusion of the competent Commission of Inquiry on the Tempe train tragedy is being held in high tones, with the government side entirely attributing the accident to the non-compliance with the General Safety Regulation and the opposition parties they speak of an attempted cover-up on the part of the governing majority. It is noted that the Greek Prime Minister is absent from the plenary session.
More specifically, the rapporteur of the New Democracy, Lazaros Tsavdaridis, speaking from the floor of the Parliament, reiterated the position that “if the General Traffic Regulation had been strictly observed by all involved parties, the accident would not have happened”.< /p> At the same time, he argued that the political responsibility was assumed with the resignation of the former Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Kostas Karamanlis, while he stated that he respects the pain and the struggle of the victims' relatives for justice.
On the part of the official opposition, SYRIZA MP and rapporteur Vassilis Kokkalis characterized the findings of the Inquiry as “shameful”, arguing that it attempts to attribute the accident solely to human errors of the workers. In the same context, he also referred to the absence of the Greek Prime Minister from the meeting, speaking of a “confession of guilt”. At the same time, he requested the lifting of the immunity of Kostas Karamanlis.
The President of the SYRIZA Parliamentary Group, Sokratis Famellos, also spoke from the floor of the Parliament, noting that the Government is trying to protect its officials “for their criminal responsibilities for the crime”. Arguing against the conclusion of the Examination Board, he noted that “the conclusion of the ND comes to the conclusion that the station master and the train drivers are solely responsible.” At the same time, he argued that the site of the accident was intentionally altered by order of the Government.
From PASOK-KINAL, MP Milena Apostolaki severely criticized the absence of the Prime Minister from the debate, speaking of a conscious political decision “organized cover-up of the biggest railway tragedy in our country”.
The Secretary of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoubas stated that “the attitude of the government was from the beginning to the end, guilty”, while he pledged that the “crime of Tempo will not be statute-barred, nor will it be forgotten”.
Finally, in her statements yesterday from the Parliament's peristyle, Zoe Konstantopoulou, the head of Plefsis, spoke of a plan to “cover up the crime of Tempo while the investigations and the interrogations are wide open”.
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