Inspector Larisa and two station chiefs, who, on the fateful night of February 28, Tempe they had a shift earlier than their already arrested colleague Vasilis S.

All three were charged with violating traffic safety. and for manslaughter and grievous bodily harm through serial negligence.

Unexpectedly, the three defendants are about to request time through their lawyers. to apologize next week.

Two deposits

61-year-old traffic police inspector D.N. already testified as a witness to both police officers A.T. Tempon, as before the investigator Larisa, who initially led the case.

In his first statement at noon on March 1, the inspector said he was informed of the accident after a phone call from an Athenian traffic controller who was unable to contact the drivers of Intercity 62 and commercial train 63503.

He also told the police that at 23:44. called the 59-year-old head of the station, Vasilis S., who was taken into custody today, to which he said that he was in obvious confusion and panic. “I realized that something bad had happened, and immediately left Volos in my car towards Larisa, and on the way I was informed that there had been a collision between two trains at the height of the Larisskaya Evangelizatsiya station.

In his first testimony, the inspector also indicated that if the driver of the Intercity train, leaving the Larissa station, announced on the radio that he was moving towards Neios Poros along the only descent path, as expected, then “perhaps the accident could have been avoided “.

“After the incident, the head of the station told me that from the beginning of his shift, at 22:00, he was alone,” said Larisa, a traffic police inspector, in her second testimony.

Two days later, and although it was known that the day after the accident he took care to take a many-day sick leave, the 61-year-old inspector voluntarily appeared before the investigator, where he again testified as a witness. . In his new testimony, he described that after the latest recruitment of stationmasters, he had assigned recruits to work as reinforcements alongside senior EfE personnel.

He also indicated that on the evening of February 28 from 22:00 to 23:00. at the head of station Larisa, the shift should be carried out by two more experienced station heads, together with 59-year-old Vasilis S. he was alone, since neither P. nor Kh. was in the office of the head of the station,” he testified about this.

Correction

The two persecuted station chiefs have not yet been questioned as witnesses. The book, which they write down when hiring and handing over their duties, and after the accident was found corrected with a gap, is sent to the forensic laboratories of Thessaloniki. A petition to the investigator of the special appellate instance for the appointment of experts to investigate the fire that broke out in a passenger train immediately after the collision is filed by criminologist Alexis Kugias, who represents the relatives of those killed in the accident.