Greek police raided Larissa station on Friday morning March 3 as part of the investigation into the causes of the deadly collision between two trains on Tuesday evening. Investigators seized ” all the documents “ potentially useful, a police spokesman told Agence France-Presse (AFP). The rail accident, which killed at least fifty-seven people according to the police, is attributed to an error by the station master of this city in the center of the country, the locality closest to the place of the collision.
A judicial source explained to AFP that the ongoing investigation is aimed at “also to initiate criminal proceedings, if necessary, against members of the company’s management” Hellenic Train, the Greek railway company, owned by the Italian public company Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane (FS). She clarified that “audio files, documents and other evidence that could help clarify the case and assign criminal responsibilities have been seized”.
Justice wants to understand how a train carrying 342 passengers and ten railway workers was allowed to take the same track as a freight convoy, before colliding head-on with it. The government made its mea culpa on Thursday as to the failures “chronicles” of the railway network which led to the tragedy, one of the most serious in Greece.
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