There is an apology from the head of the station Larisa about the tragedy in Tempe as yesterday his lawyer requested a new term, arguing that “there were new elements”.

The stationmaster faces serious charges of violating traffic safety, a crime that is prosecuted under a recent amendment to the Criminal Code as a felony and carries a sentence of ten years to life in prison.

He also faces charges of serial manslaughter, as many as the number of people who died, but also charges of bodily harm with the same criminal qualification as the wounded who got out alive.

However, according to the indictment filed against him, the omissions are serious, they are not limited to his mistake in sending the train in the wrong direction, but continue, as from the electronic system operating to the point in Larisa, he could see the wrong train and correct his fatal decision.

A moving train is monitored at a distance of 5.5 kilometers from the moment of departure of trains from the Larisa station to the place where there is the possibility of electronic control over the movement. Such a system did not exist then.

Also, according to the indictment, he did not take into account – the third mistake – the fact that the head of the New Resources station notified him 17 minutes before the collision that the freight train was moving in the same direction.

In addition, as follows from his pre-trial apology, in which he admitted his mistakes, he understood what happened when he learned about the tragedy.

Near, as wrote yesterday “K”in search of criminal liability for the tragedy against officials who had the duty to appoint the head of the station as the shift supervisor to the responsible post of Larisa, the prosecutor’s office acts immediately.

According to the information, the head of all investigative actions, the head of the Larissa Appeal Prosecutor’s Office, Stamatis Daskalopoulos, asked that investigative actions be directed to search for all the data on how the inexperienced head of the station was alone in the Larissa Appeal Center for 4 days. mail, and indeed, when during the three days of Maslenitsa Monday, train traffic was intense.