New persons, at least three, have already entered the framework of criminal responsibility and the perpetrators. For tragedy in TempeHow investigative actions they “run” to Larisa in connection with the convening of a plenum of appellants, which, as expected, will lead in the coming days to an increase in the qualifications of investigative actions by assigning them to two appellant investigators.

According to reportsThe investigating authorities, before which the station chiefs of Larisa testify on other shifts, in addition to the fateful night of Tuesday, as well as other railway workers, will in the very near future initiate a new criminal case on the fact of the tragic accident, since there are already aggravating circumstances of participation in the duties of the station chief and others persons.

In particular, according to the information, after the apology of the head of the station, who took responsibility, but put the inspector of the traffic police, as well as his fellow station heads, under the responsibility, a competent investigator collected incriminating material for three. more faces.

They came under the responsibility according to information an inspector who replaced an inexperienced stationmaster, a day stationmaster who had to remain at his post until 11 p.m., and a central shiftmaster at responsible railway stations who gives general directions to be able to keep passengers and trains moving.

Also, the investigative actions are already focused on finding the responsibility that the driver of the fatal train, who died in a tragic accident, probably had, as there is evidence in the investigation that he should have pointed out his mistake as an inexperienced station manager and asked for clarification about the wrong course of the train .

However, in order to fully clarify the responsibility of each, as there are already conflicting testimonies of the interrogated railway workers, as well as from the statement of the head of the station, the conclusions of the already prepared examination of the causes of the tragic accident, will provide critical and very instructive information about how we mourned so many victims.

Reportedly, the conclusion of the experts appointed by the prosecutor’s office will be presented to the investigating authorities no later than today and will include a full and detailed assessment of the conversations of the station chiefs before the fatal collision, electronic records of the train path, the movement of the commercial train, as well as the movement of trains preceding the tragic event. .

Clash of 2017

In the meantime, the tragedy in Tempi is expected to develop a criminal development, the prosecutor of the Supreme Court Isidoros Dogiakos, which the day before yesterday ordered an investigation into the outstanding work on the railway network, yesterday instructed the Prosecutor’s Office of Thessaloniki to send him the materials of the case initiated in 2017, when the train derailed with four dead, including one of the two train drivers. The second surviving driver was accused of the tragedy, but he was acquitted in court in 2022.

According to reportsThe Supreme Court Attorney has now requested case files on the 2017 accident as reports indicate that both then and now there were similar allegations of responsibility in relation to the status of the rail network upgrades that were not being investigated then – in 2017 – and it may seem appropriate to do so now.

The inspector who put the head of the station on shifts and two of his colleagues are responsible.

At the same time, financial prosecutor Christos Bardakis, after yesterday’s order by the prosecutor of the Supreme Court Isidoros Dogiakos on the absolute priority of the investigation of all overdue or not properly executed contracts for the modernization of the railway network, assigned three prosecutors to investigate the projects. Prosecutor of Appeal Michalis Michalopoulos, who will also be the head of the prosecutor’s office, and prosecutors Dimitris Apostolas and Athanasia Vlachos, who in the past investigated contract 717 of 2014, a contract for the modernization of the railway. network, which was never implemented and after passing forty waves, an agreement finally appeared that supplemented it (additional), while the entire project has not yet been fully completed.

The investigation into contract 717 by prosecutor Athanasia Vlacho resulted in complaints that led to the intervention of the prosecutor and related to the loss of 3 million euros by the state as a result of project delays. However, the investigations conducted by the Transparency Office, the conclusion of which was sent to the Financial Prosecutor’s Office, according to the information, did not reveal that the state suffered losses, and the case was initiated in 2021. was subsequently withdrawn in 2022 as newer information brought to the attention of the Financial Prosecutor’s Office by the European Prosecutor’s Office, which is still investigating the part of this case concerning the management of Community funds.

Under investigation

However, in addition to the investigation by the European Prosecutor’s Office, according to the Financial Prosecutor’s Office, on crimes of disloyalty to the state (i.e. causing financial damage to the state) from non-execution of train contracts, is already investigating:

• Contract 2005 for the modernization of the railway network in the section Athens, Acharnes, Lyosia, Corinth.

• 2013 contract for the Acharnes-Tiforea section.

• Contract from 2013 also on the Tiforea – Domokos section.

• 2015 contract for the Piraeus-Athens section.

The investigations of the Financial Prosecutor’s Office, according to the information, concern only the establishment of the fact of the commission of the crime of perfidy against the state, and not other crimes.