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Greece Train Tragedy Trial Adjourned Amid Courtroom Chaos
Thirty-six defendants face charges over the 2023 crash that killed 57, with trial adjourned after courtroom overcrowding and over 350 witnesses expected.
- On Monday, the trial for Greece's 2023 train collision that left 57 dead began but was adjourned to April 1 following chaotic scenes in an overcrowded courtroom in Larissa.
- The trial concerns the February 28, 2023, collision near Tempe where a freight train and passenger train smashed together, an accident that killed 57 and sparked widespread public anger.
- Thirty-Six defendants, including station master Vassilios Samaras and officials from the Hellenic Railways Organisation and Hellenic Train, face charges with over 350 witnesses scheduled to testify.
- Lawyers labeled the venue "insultingly" unsuitable, while Maria Karystianou, a prominent victims' family member, told reporters relatives were "packed like sardines."
- Christos Vlahos, a parent of one victim, stated the trial "clearly demonstrates all the corruption of the Greek state," while European Public Prosecutor Laura Kovesi noted the collision could have been avoided with modernized signaling systems.
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Overcrowding Halts Opening of Tempi Disaster Trial in Larissa, Greece
Judges take their seats as the Tempi disaster trial opens in a packed courtroom in Larissa, Greece. Credit: Apostolos Ntomalis / AMNA The criminal trial over Greece’s Tempi rail disaster stalled during its opening session in Larissa after overcrowding in the courtroom triggered protests and repeated pauses in the proceedings. The hearing is scheduled to resume on April 1. Before the session stopped, the presiding judge of the three-member felony…
The trial of the railway accident in Larissa, Greece, opened this morning. But families shouted their outrage in the courtroom, denouncing "insulting" conditions, forcing the President of the Court to adjourn the hearing until April 1. - Greece: barely opened, the trial of the country's worst rail disaster adjourned after tensions at the hearing (International).
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The first day of the trial for the most serious railway accident Greece has suffered was marked by the tension and strong criticism of the survivors and relatives of the victims, who denounced technical problems and the lack of space in the courtroom: "We had requested that the trial not be held here", declared the media Panos Routsis, father of one of the victims and who was on hunger strike for 23 days to request the exhumation and the carryin…
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Greece train tragedy trial adjourned amid courtroom chaos
A long-awaited trial into Greece's worst train tragedy was adjourned to April 1 after starting on Monday amid chaotic scenes in a courtroom too small to handle the huge interest in the case, officials said.
The families of the 57 people killed on 28 February 2023 shouted their anger in the courtroom, denouncing organizational conditions deemed "insulting." The trial was to determine the responsibilities in the frontal collision of two trains, on 28 February 2023, which had killed 57 people.
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