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.
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.
Reuters was unable to verify the allegations.
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.
Victims’ relatives have started a petition to amend century old rules that protect politicians from prosecution. They have collected more than 1.3 million signatures so far.
Mitsotakis’ New Democracy party, which leads opinion polls, says the opposition is exploiting the case to benefit politically. Justice Minister George Floridis called the allegations a “campaign of lies and deception”.
Source: CNA
