Families and friends, dressed in black, clung to each other, in tears, as the coffin of a 34-year-old mother killed in Greece’s deadliest train crash was lifted up the stairs of a church. | Reuters
Anger has grown across the country over the crash, which the government has attributed to human error but which unions say was inevitable due to lack of maintenance and faulty signalling.
Clashes broke out with some protesters who threw petrol bombs and set garbage bins on fire. Police responded with volleys of teargas.Students held up black balloons. One placard read: “It was not an accident, it was murder.” The word “Murderers” was painted in red on the street. “How do you think I feel? It’s a disgrace,” said another student, 18-year-old Maria Choremi. “All of Greece is crying from morning until evening while they sit in their offices drinking coffee,” she said, referring to politicians.Outside the hospital in Larissa, where many of the victims were taken, the parents of a 22-year-old man waited in anguish for confirmation of what had happened to their son.Not long before the crash, his son Denis had told him he would be late and would call.
“The federation has been sounding alarm bells for so many years, but it has never been taken seriously,” the main railworkers’ union said, demanding a meeting with the new transport minister, appointed after the crash with a mandate to ensure such a tragedy can never happen again.Opposition politicians also started to voice criticism.
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