KATERINI — Families and friends, dressed in black, clung to each other, in tears, as the coffin of a 34\u002Dyear\u002Dold mother killed in Greece’s deadliest train…
After evening protests over the past two days, some 2,000 students took to the streets in Athens on Friday, blocking the road in front of parliament for a moment of silence.
“Most of all we feel rage that this could happen in the year 2023, how two trains can collide… when there is so much technology,” said 21-year-old student Aggelos Thomopolous. Outside the hospital in Larissa, where many of the victims were taken, the parents of a 22-year-old man waited in anguish for confirmation of what had happened to their son.Not long before the crash, his son Denis had told him he would be late and would call. “I’m still waiting,” Routsi said.
“The federation has been sounding alarm bells for so many years, but it has never been taken seriously,” the main railworkers’ union said, demanding a meeting with the new transport minister, appointed after the crash with a mandate to ensure such a tragedy can never happen again.Advertisement 6Opposition politicians also started to voice criticism.
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