Long-awaited trial into Greece’s deadliest train crash begins
More than 30 people face charges after collision between two trains that killed 57 people in February 2023 A long-awaited trial has begun into Greece’s worst train tragedy , which killed 57 people in 2023, leaving the entire country in shock. Thirty-six people face charges and more than 350 witnesses are due to be heard at the trial that opened in the central city of Larissa, near where a freight train and a passenger train collided on 28 February 2023.
Judges adjourn hearing into country’s worst rail disaster after grieving families denounce it as caricature of justice
A long-awaited trial into Greece’s worst train crash has descended into chaos hours after it began, with relatives of the 57 people killed in the disaster screaming “shame on you” at judges who were forced to adjourn the hearing until next month.
More than three years after the disaster, grieving families denounced the proceedings as a caricature of justice amid demands the trial be held elsewhere. The five-member panel of judges called multiple recesses on Monday before announcing the hearing would be postponed until 1 April.
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