PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Some victims’ relatives decried the procedure as a coverup and claime that all government ministers, including Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, against whom lawsuits have been filed should be investigated, and not just a single official."
STORY: "Parliament to probe whether ex-minister tampered with site of Tempe rail disaster," published by newsroom (ekathimerimi.com), on March 4, 2025.
GIST: "The Greek Parliament decided late Tuesday to set up a preliminary investigation committee that will consider allegations against former Deputy Climate Crisis and Civil Protrection Christos Triantopoulos.
The main opposition socialist PASOK party that tabled the proposal claims Triantopoulos, who resigned his ministerial post Tuesday while protesting his innocence, covered up evidence on the site of the Tempe railway disaster by ordering the filling of the site a couple of days after the Feb. 28, 2023, crash of a passenger and a cargo train. The official accusation is “dereliction of duty.”
The result, 277-12 in favor of setting up the 27-member committee, was a foregone conclusion once the government decided to support the proposal, saying that it, too, favored total transparency. Four MPs voted present, two cast blank ballots and another two spoiled ballots.
With the public widely sharing the suspicions of the relatives of the 57 victims of Greece’s deadliest rail disaster that the government was, at a minimum, less than forthcoming about what transpired that night or, worse, that it deliberately suppressed evidence, and the opposition seeking to make political capital out of the issue, the case has recently exploded in a way that it had not in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, putting the government on the defensive.
Protests have been escalating and the ones organized on the second anniversary of the disaster were massively attended.
Parliamentary party leaders will debate the issue Wednesday. Also Wednesday, four opposition parties (PASOK, SYRIZA, New Left and Course of Freedom) are expected to table a joint motion of no confidence.
Some victims’ relatives decried the procedure as a coverup and claime that all government ministers, including Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, against whom lawsuits have been filed should be investigated, and not just a single official. They also claimed PASOK, with its “artful” proposal, is part of the coverup."
The entire story can be read at:
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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