Only a few minutes after 11.20 pm there was a deadly collision on the street. Tempe between two trains, oh Kyriakos Mitsotakis informed about the incident. In those same first minutes, information about the extent of the tragedy was not clear, but very soon, about 15 minutes after the collision, the magnitude began to be felt, as the first AKAB vehicles arrived at the scene and reported that it was a serious collision and not a derailment . As early as 11.40 am, 30 ambulances, 15 patrol cars and a total of 32 Greek police officers, as well as the first fire brigade vehicles, arrived at the scene to extinguish the fire. With the arrival of the first security forces to the scene, the first clear picture reached Athens that it was a very serious accident.

After the first mobilization of forces, the first minister left for the place. Considering that there were now dozens of wounded and dead, Thanos Pleuris went to Larisa around 12:00 am to coordinate the situation in the hospitals. At the same time, the first “gathering” of the authorities took place at the Civil Protection Coordinating Center in Kifisias. From 2 a.m., in addition to the “master” Christos Stylianidis and Deputy Minister Evangelos Tournas, there were Minister of Civil Protection Takis Theodorikakos, Director of the Prime Minister Yiannis Bratakos, “Head of Section” Major General George Michalopoulos, Chief of the Fire Brigade George Pournaras, two members of the press fire department and police, g.i. Civil Protection Vassilis Papageorgiou, as well as Minister of State Akis Skertsos and the Hon. director of the press service Giorgos Efthymiou. Over time, information about the dead increased, and the prime minister was informed in real time by his manager, Yiannis Bratakos. At 1:20, according to information received by the Civil Protection, 7 people died. At 2:20 am, the official death toll reached 10. The assessment of the situation began to become clearer, as a result of which, at 3 am, representatives of law enforcement agencies gave the first public information.

When a Hellenic Train spokesman was asked how many people were on board, he did not give a clear answer, causing government officials to explode.

Late Wednesday morning, a Hellenic Train representative also showed up. When asked how many were on board, he did not give a clear answer, causing government officials to explode. “You can’t ask the head of a company something so simple and not get an answer,” a government official who attended the meeting told K.

Wednesday morning at Maximos was completely different. The atmosphere was very heavy, the Prime Minister was in the mansion from 6 am, and around 6.30 morning coffee began, two hours earlier than usual. “The general atmosphere that prevailed in those early hours was that the state apparatus should do everything for the families of the victims and that the search for victims should be completed as quickly as possible,” a government spokesman tells K. At the meeting, the prime minister told his colleagues that he would go to the site of the tragedy. Early on Wednesday morning, Minister Kostas Karamanlis was also at the scene of the accident. According to the information, as soon as the minister saw the scale of the tragedy, he admitted to a colleague that he could no longer remain in his post. Soon after, in the region of Thessaly, Kostas Karamanlis informed the prime minister that he had made the decision to resign. Mr. Mitsotakis asked him if he was sure and received a positive response, saying that he could not help but take political responsibility for what had tragically happened.

The Prime Minister returned to Maximos after visiting Tempi, where he stayed until late Wednesday evening. The scene of the morning meeting was repeated on Thursday. The participants of the so-called “morning coffee” for continuous assessment of the situation were there throughout the day: government representative Yiannis Oikonomou, Giorgos Gerapetritis, Akis Skertsos, Dimitris Tsiodras, Christos Zografos, Giorgos Efthymiou, Kira Kappi, Yiannis Vlastaris. , Eric Parks, Nikos Romanos, George Milonakis, Michalis Bekiris, Aristotelia Peloni and Thanasis Nesis.