“I deny as unfounded and legally unconfirmed the demand regarding my alleged duty as the head of the station to stay at the Larisa station on February 28, 2023 until 23:00. is recorded in the report card of the station chiefs for this month, since this entry does not mean the combination of hours from 10 to 11 hours of the station chiefs of the 2nd and 3rd shifts, but the time during which the transmission must be carried out without failures and safety services from one to another.

He stated this in his apologetic memorandum. Larisa head of the station K.P.who on February 28 was on duty at the Larisa railway station before being taken into custody as responsible for Fatal crash in Tempe stationmaster Vassilis Samaras. K.P. charged with a felony for allegedly leaving the train station just after 10 p.m., almost an hour before the end of his shift.

However, in his memorandum, the stationmaster denies the accusations attributed to him and claims that an intermediate hour is provided for the safe delivery – receiving a shift from one stationmaster to another. “The head of the station of the new shift is coming. It is updated with the previous one. He gets the favor and signs the book, and the previous one lets him go, who also leaves, ”notes K.P. in his memorandum.

On the fateful night of the fatal accident, the stationmaster announced that he had left the service after traffic on the railway network returned to normal.

“Mr. Samaras has had absolutely no other work since I left, that is, from 10:30 p.m. until 11 p.m., and there was no reason at all why I should have stayed with him longer as a more experienced stationmaster. In fact, that is, from 22.11. who came to S.S. Larisa is Intercity 63, which I organized, until 22:45. where commuter train 2597 was supposed to arrive, no other train was moving within the territorial boundaries of the PS. Larisa.

Regarding the presence of a gap in the income and expense book, the prosecuted stationmaster claimed in his note of apology that, due to his blindness, he incorrectly filled in the delivery time, which he corrected by making a note that he erased with a corrective agent. “This (including the use of blanks) did not change anything in the very fact that the time of delivery and reception of my services by the stationmaster is 22.30.”

When, after a train collision, K.P. Returning to the station, he reported verbatim that “we found Samara sitting at the station and tried to calmly ask him what happened, but he did not let us know.” After yesterday’s confession to the investigator, he was released on bail of 15,000 euros. Inspector Larisa’s apology is scheduled for Thursday.