Αrecently formed state agency created only a month before the February
Αrecently formed state agency created only a month before the February 2023 Tempi rail disaster will reportedly release a report on the deadly two-train collision on Feb. 27 – a day before the grim two-year anniversary of the incident.
The president of the agency, officially called the wordy “national organization for the investigation of air and rail accidents and transport security”, Christos Papadimitriou, told an Athens broadcaster on Saturday that although a European Directive foresaw the creation of just such an entity – as far back as 2014 – for every member-state, it was not established in Greece until one month before the disaster – which claimed the lives of 57 people.
The agency was founded in January 2023 by combining the two independent entities tasked with investigating air and rail accidents, although actually staffing the organization proved to be another hurdle.
As a result, Papadimitriou said civil defense and fire brigade inspectors without necessary training and know-how first assumed the investigation of the Tempi disaster, which occurred just before midnight on the evening of Feb. 28, 2023.
The agency was finally staffed in September 2023, but still without even one expert for rail accidents. After his letters to superiors, the European
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