Atene, Grecia oggi, centinaia di migliaia di persone che protestano contro il rivestimento governativo del mortale incidente del treno Temi nel suo 2 ° anniversario di lacrime.

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Some context.

2 years ago on the 28th of February 2023,a deadly head on collision between a passenger and cargo train occurred in Tempi a few kilometers away from the city of Larissa, killing 57 people,most of them students.

Although people survived the crash,calls were made to emergenxy services by the survivors asking for help.In these calls the survivors of the crash told responders that they had trouble breathing, I HAVE NO OXYGEN,as a girl who later died told the emergency call center,all the while an unexpected fire engulfed the crash site.

The calls,combined with the experience of first responders point to a chemical fire that occurred thanks to illegal cargo that was on the cargo train.Most survivors as it turns out either died by asphyxiation or were burned alive.

The government denied the existence of any illegal cargo and rushed to try and cover its tracks,removing mass amounts of the soil in the crash site,even though not all bodies of the victims were yet recovered.They posted police and closed off the sites so no further investigation could take place.

More over,although its typical to hold evidence relating to accidents such as these for a period of at least 6 months,police and politicians have claimed that the investigation files have been decommissioned about 2 months after.

2 people in managerial roles in the train company related to the accident have died in car “accidents” and another one,son of the DA that took on the case was kidnapped and later found dead.

Government officials have gone on to discredit,attack or even seek legal action against the families of the victims,claiming that they only seek monetary compensation for the deaths.

As of now,no one has been imprisoned,although a few low level employees of the train company have been arrested.

No politicians have resigned,not one of them has come forth to speak truth to the facts and take responsibility for what is a clear cut case of smuggling that involves both high ranking members of government and organized crime.

Today millions of Greek citizens come out to protest the cover up,their keywords being:”I have no oxygen”,”State Murder” and “cover up”.

We all just want justice for the dead and their families and more accountability to fall on the shoulders of our politicians who make millions while we mourn.

For some context, the government after a mass privatization campaign sold off the national train company. After constant neglect, underfunding and undermanning of the railway system, a massive train crash happened which killed 57 people. The ironic thing is that a month before the crash, the organisation of railway workers protested because of the safety risks, protests which were deemed “illegal”, and in a speech in the parliament, the minister of transportation was wagging his finger saying that it is “insulting to even bring up safety concerns”. As if that wasnt enough, one of the trains was carrying illegal chemical cargo, which caused a fire that killed even more people than the crash itself.

Ever since then the goverment has been doing anything and everything to obfuscate the investigation, with the families of the victims themselves having to do all the work on their own. This included but was not limited to

* Publicly denying the existence of the illegal cargo
* throwing away large parts of bodies to obfuscate medical analysis of causes of death
* tampering and misplacing evidence (with some videos being found years later in fucking computer trashcans)
* Constantly underplaying the past protests on the issue in mainstream media coverage
* Literally physically covering up with cement etc the crash site (which an expert report concluded significantly hampered the evidence gathering process)
* Public statements of ministers from the ruling party that the only reason the parents of the victims are doing such a fuss is because they want money (fucking disgusting).

There has been a lot of other bullshit and questionable events around this, but two years later in one of the most massive protests in the history of the country the people publicly showed their discontent. The police estimated 180,000 people in Syntagma alone (with the real number likely being far higher).

How many people do you think were there approximately ?

There is talk of this being the biggest manifestation since the fall of junta, there were protests in nearly every village. Genuinely historic.