A new circle of defendants tragic accident in Tempe opened yesterday from prosecution authorities who are investigating the causes and looking for those responsible for the tragedy, with seriousness criminal prosecution against three others. Aggravating circumstances have emerged from the investigative process, which has so far “run” at a fast pace. three railroad workers which were directly related to the responsibility for the tragic accident.

According to the investigation, all three are charged with the most serious violation of transport safety, which is prosecuted as a serious crime and carries a penalty of ten years to life imprisonment. Criminal cases were also initiated for serial killings by negligence, as many as the victims of the tragedy, and for causing bodily harm with the same criminal qualification for the victims.

The persecution of the three primarily concerns him traffic warden trains in the area, a man who placed an inexperienced stationmaster on the night shift during the three days of Good Monday and hurried to ask for sick leave before the dead were collected.

However, in addition to the investigator, the group of new defendants also included two stationmasters who had the obligation of the shifts they had taken on to be at the post of Larisa until 11 o’clock on the fateful night. However, from what transpired during the interrogation, both of them left earlier, at different times, since the head of the station who was arrested in advance says something else, and the same people who were interrogated during the preliminary investigation say something else. But the bottom line is that they both left before 11 at night and left the inexperienced stationmaster alone, as a result of which he made a lot of mistakes and omissions.

The appointment of an inspector for the services of stationmasters opens up a range of duties.

The apologies from all three are likely to be issued to the two appellate investigators who will be selected today at the plenary session of the appellate court, which is meeting this morning to select two senior judges who will henceforth lead the investigation. . The plenary session is attended by 21 senior judges who currently work in Larisa and was convened on the initiative of the head of the Larisa Prosecutor’s Office of Appeal, Stamatis Daskalopoulos, who has been in charge of all investigations from the very beginning.

However, the information that the judiciary will not close the circle of defendants with three, against whom criminal cases were initiated yesterday, is of great interest for the investigation of the case and an in-depth search for the causes of the tragedy.

information “K” According to sources familiar with the progress of the investigative work, aggravating circumstances have already emerged as a result of the judicial investigations, which are likely to lead to in new lawsuits and against others. Investigations had already focused on the responsibility that other EfE officers had for shifts at critical railway stations such as Larisa, and it appears from the testimony of the already accused inspector that his list of shifts was approved. his superior at the headquarters of the Organization. In fact, according to his testimony, the shifts came to the headquarters for approval a day before they were carried out precisely in order to cross out station foremen who were not suitable for the position, and still decide how many station foremen would be in each shift and in each mail .

At the same time, the investigative work turned to the search for the responsibility of the driver of the fatal train who died in the accident, whether he was aware of the wrong course of the train and whether he could apply to the prosecutor’s office for clarification. stationmaster or took other action to prevent the tragedy.

However, on the basis of information from judicial sources, it appears that the unfortunate engineer did not talk to the head of the Larisa station by radiotelephone, and also did not ask him for clarification about the order he received to move the train to the next station, which was Nei Pori. However, it is still unclear if the driver tried to talk to anyone on his mobile phone, which is reported but not confirmed. In any case, interrogations from next week are expected to move at an even faster pace, and the work of the investigator, who took over from the very beginning, is considered especially important today.