A large CNU rally took place on Syntagma Square after the deadly tragedy in Tempe.

“This crime cannot be hidden, let’s be the voice of all the dead” was the dominant slogan.

“This was a deliberate crime for which the state and the company are to blame,” Angelos Thomopoulos, chief executive of KNE, president of the NTUA Student Surveying Engineers Association, said at the meeting. “We are stepping up the fight, we will be the voice of the dead,” he added.

The audience formed the phrase “I do not forget” with bags, and the slogan “Their profits, our dead” was written with lit candles.

The meeting, which was addressed by CNE CC Secretary Thodoris Kotsantis, ended with the voice of Pavlos Sidiropoulos singing “Ehe to nou sou sto piido…” and dozens of lanterns in the sky in memory of the dead. tragedy in Tempi.

During the action in the center of Athens, the rules of the road were in effect.

Marches in Thessaloniki

And in Thessaloniki, dozens of schoolchildren, students and workers held a rally and a protest march in connection with the railway tragedy in Tempi at the call of the KNE. “Your profit is our dead, only people save people,” read the central banner of the rally. The girls held posters in their hands that formed the word “Rage”.

“We are here for our companion Vasso, a 25-year-old girl who is struggling with her wounds at the Larisa hospital at this time, and tomorrow she will have an operation … We are here for Agapi, Athena, Vaia, Iphigenia. , Panagiotis, Kyprianos… Each of them is one of us, and each of us could be in their place,” said Giannis Vasiliadis, a member of the office of the Central Council of the KNU, in his speech.

The protesters gathered at the White Tower and marched through the central streets of the city. They argue that the train derailment was a “prescribed crime” and urge no one to go unpunished.

The protest march over the deadly Tempe train accident was also led by collectives and individuals from the wider anti-authoritarian space who gathered in Camara on the 7th.

^{With information from APE-MPE}