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Greek PM faces no-confidence vote over fatal train crash amid allegations of edited recordings

2024-03-28 00:00:00.0 独立报-世界新闻原网页

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The government of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis faces a no-confidence vote on Thursday over the handling of a train crash last year that killed 57 people, after media reports emerged this week alleging manipulation of evidence.

Leftist opposition parties submitted a censure motion against the conservative government this week accusing it of “trying to hide the truth” after a freight train collided head-on with a passenger train in central Greece, the worst accident in the country’s history.

The government denies wrongdoing and is expected to survive the vote given its party’s majority. But the motion highlights how many are still angered by a disaster that revealed how decades of neglect and mismanagement had jeopardised railway safety. Experts say little has changed to improve standards since.

To Vima newspaper reported on Saturday that a recording of a dialogue between the station master and the train driver, leaked to media hours after the crash, had been allegedly edited to put the blame on human error rather than systemic problems in the rail network.

The allegations could not be verified.

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“Like every Greek citizen, we want to know the truth,” Nikos Androulakis, the head of the centre-left PASOK party, told parliament on Wednesday.

A judicial investigation is underway and is expected to be completed in the coming months. Authorities have charged dozens of people over the crash, including a station master who is in custody pending trial.

Greek Prime Ministers Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Investigators hired by victims’ relatives have also alleged that quickly removing burnt carriages from the crash site and laying down gravel may have destroyed evidence. Greece did not have a functional national investigating body of such incidents at the time of the crash.

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