“Every day we continue to do our duty. In this particular case, let’s do everything in our power to get the whole truth out. And this is like a minimal tribute to all the victims of this unimaginable tragedy that shook the whole of Greece,” Yannis Ragusis emphasized in his statements after a visit to Larissa and a meeting with workers and station managers.

The head of the SYRIZA-PS transparency department said that from the talks he had with the current chiefs of residency, “a very serious new fact has come to light, which we will competently inform and make detailed and official statements, and which will certainly shed more light on what who is ultimately responsible and where they should be for this great national tragedy.” He noted that “the new data concerns telecontrol, which, as we were told by the current station chiefs, existed and operated at the Larissa station until the summer of 2019, when a fire broke out at the Zachareos station and which this fire had as a result of which the operation of the remote control remote control has since been discontinued”.

He added that “at that time, the console had problems with various cases of theft on the route. But there was a remote control, and it allowed the Larisa station to “see” at a very long distance right in front of the Imathia boards for about 110 kilometers.” This means that “as long as the remote control system was in operation, that is, until the summer of 2019, the Larisa station was not “blind”, but could follow the progress and evolution of the course of trains,” he noted.

In addition, Mr. Raguzis said that at the same time “it is very important that, as we have been informed, the remote control operation from 2004 to 2019 has resulted in a place here where the respective station master is located at that time. when trains come and go, and to exist and manage the remote control center with the head of the remote control station. So, he emphasized, “during, as we were told, all 24 hours every day we had two station masters. The usual station master and the second, next to the first station master, the master of the remote control station. This stopped, we were told, in July 2019.”

Mr. Ragusis noted that a “reasonable question” arises: “how is it possible with a fire at Zaharis station from the summer of 2019 so that the damage is not repaired as soon as possible, and we are arriving today, from the summer of 2019.” Does the Larisa station work without remote control and with one station master instead of two?

The responsible head of SYRIZA said that this is “very serious new data”, adding that “we are not prosecutors and do not conduct an investigation, but clarifying the case is of great importance.”

Source: APE/MEB