Hundreds of thousands of people went to the streets of more than 250 cities in Greece on Friday, on the second anniversary of the trains accident in which 57 people died to express their rejection of the conservative government they accuse of cover up your responsibilities in tragedy.
Nails 200,000 peopleaccording to the police, and 500,000, according to the conveners, concentrated on the syntagma square of Athens, where Parliament is located, to demand that justice be done for what happened and those responsible are punished.
The mobilizations, estimated by many as the greatest that Greece has lived since the return of democracy in 1974, were carried out within the framework of a 24 -hour general strike Convened by the main unions of the country, Adedy and Gsee.
Thus, Greece woke up today paralyzed by land, sea and air, since the sailors, rail workers and aerial controllers were added to the strike, while the monitoring of the general strike exceeded 90 %, an unpublished figure in the history of the country.
Justice claims
“I felt that I had to come to protest because justice has not yet been done,” Maria, a psychologist by profession, told Efe, during the demonstration in Athens. The 34 -year -old woman added that she does believe that the Greek prime minister government, the conservative Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is trying to cover up her responsibilities for what happened.
On February 28, 2023, a cargo train collided frontally with another of passengers near the town of Tempe, in a section of track that lacked automated security systems. “I feel forced by my conscience to come to the march. Since I have memory I do not remember such a great demonstration,” said Kostas PapathanasÃu, historian by profession.
“This shows that people have lost all confidence in the government, but also in institutions,” said PapathanasÃ, and argued that “no doubt” the government is trying to hide their responsibilities. More than fifty injured the peaceful mobilization began to be altered when a group of masks launched Molotov cocktails and stones against the agents that guard the Greek Parliament.
In a video published by the News247 portal you can see how some of the violent protesters come to jump the fence of Parliament and face face to face with the riot agents, which finally used tear gas to disperse the group.
Police arrested 125 people in Athensa good part during “preventive controls” before the altercations began. Health services have directly attended to the Parliament to about 40 people, many of them affected by the inhalation of the gases used by the riot. Some 30 people were admitted to hospitals with minor injuries, including a photojournalist from the state agency AMNA who received the impact of a stunned grenade on the head.
Minor altercations were also recorded in Salares, second city of Greece, where tens of thousands of people participated in the mobilizations.
Motion of censure against mitsotakis
“Today the Greek people united have demanded that those responsible (of the tragedy) be taken before their natural judge,” said Nikos Andulakis, leader of the Pasok Socialist Party, the main opposition force in Greece, before those congregated in a demonstration held on the island of Crete.
El Pasok will present a motion of censure against government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis for “mocking and deceiving the Greek people” regarding the tragedy. The National Air Accident and Railway Research Authority (EODASAAM) on Thursday published a report in which it ensures that the scene of the clash was altered in such a way that it led to the Destruction of evidence.
Source: Lasexta
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