Greek PM faces no-confidence vote over 2023 train crash

A judicial investigation is underway and is predicted to be accomplished within the coming months. Authorities have charged dozens of individuals over the crash, together with a station grasp who’s in custody pending trial.

To Vima newspaper reported on Saturday {that a} recording of a dialogue between the station grasp and the prepare driver, leaked to media hours after the crash, had been allegedly edited to place the blame on human error reasonably than systemic issues within the rail community.

Reuters was unable to confirm the allegations.

Investigators employed by victims’ kinfolk have additionally alleged that rapidly eradicating burnt carriages from the crash web site and laying down gravel could have destroyed proof. Greece didn’t have a practical nationwide investigating physique of such incidents on the time of the crash.

Victims’ kinfolk have began a petition to amend century previous guidelines that shield politicians from prosecution. They’ve collected greater than 1.3 million signatures to date.

Mitsotakis’ New Democracy celebration, which leads opinion polls, says the opposition is exploiting the case to learn politically. Justice Minister George Floridis referred to as the allegations a “marketing campaign of lies and deception”.