At the highest level, the investigation into the tragic train accident in Tempeand a new Appellate Investigator – after his appointment process by the Plenum of the Appeals Chamber concluded last Friday in Larisa – is now formally taking over the detailed examination of the case.

According to APE-MPE, the investigator of the appellate instance received all the voluminous material of the case for its in-depth study, as the case is considered to be complex with many parameters. The purpose of the procedure is for the judicial authorities to establish the causes of the accident and assign full responsibility.

In this regard, it is expected that the three defendants, namely the two station chiefs and the investigator, who were charged with involvement in the case, will once again pass by the investigator’s office so that the investigator familiarizes himself with all the information.

In the subsequent period from the moment of the development of the investigation, it is possible to bring other persons to criminal liability.

He didn’t know how to operate the system

The revealing records in the “black box” of the remote control operating at the Larissa station indicate that the 59-year-old previously arrested station chief did not know or chose not to use the remote control system that was installed and operated at the Larissa station for several months, or chose not to use it on the night of February 28th.

As the Kathimerini tis Kiriaki wrote yesterday, the stationmaster relied on the old control panel to plot the route, as a result of which he forgot one of the keys in the wrong place and sent the Intercity 62 train downstream. , but where the commercial train was moving in the opposite direction.

Two of his more experienced colleagues, who were on duty on the fateful night of the crash, did not use the old control panel, but an automated electronic route marking system. However, they left their post early, which led to a fatal incident.

The above conclusions are most revealingly reflected in the “black box” of the remote control system, the event registration board, which operates at the Larisa station and brought exclusively in the light of “K”.