Timby, Greece – Greece was fully hiabted during a general strike on the occasion of the second anniversary of the worst railway disaster in the country, where 346 protests were calculated in Greece and abroad.

Government services, banks and companies were closed on Friday. Ships have not sailed, trains have not been operated and no planes were left or Greece-an unprecedented stoppage since days the country’s bankruptcy in the financial crisis after 2009.

A report on an independent accident issued on Thursday indicated a series of cases of the failure of chronic equipment and human errors in the Greek railway system that led a passenger train heading north to collide to face with a south shipping train in the Timby Corridor in northern Greece, killing 57 people.

Many of them were young people who were returning to the university in Thissaloniki after a three -day weekend. Their loss has turned the Tempe incident into a symbol of what many Greeks see as the country’s inefficiency and non -accountability.

“For us, it is not an accident.” It is a crime, “said Nikos Blakes, the father of two students who were killed, on the island.

“I think what I was able to do in history – that in the end, the politicians will take responsibility. I think the politicians will sit in the sidewalk. Blakes said:” If a single politician is not called to his account, I will say that this entire effort has failed. “

Blakes believe that the sisters are Those, Kraisa Blackia, and their cousin, Anastasia Maria, sitting in the car directly behind the restaurant’s car and they had survived if they had not moved there, as Blakes believed.

“The girls did not have a ticket for that car. They were supposed to be in the number five. In Larissa, many people came out and only 20 got. There were many empty seats, and the girls wanted to sit together, so they asked if there was a free cabin in the foreground, and led to the cabin of death.”

Alma Lata lost her daughter, a medical student student.

“We are fighting for the future of children, for a better society,” she told Al -Jazeera Island. “Everyone needs to go out on the twenty -eighth for their children, … our children are gone. They are not returning. But we must fight for other children.”

On Thursday, the Air Safety and Railways Investigation Authority said that Greece has already suffered from a culture of poor railway safety and outdated practices, but governments have worsened through mismanagement of the financial crisis. She said that severe austerity policies may irritate the state -owned Hellenic Railways (OSE) and left the equipment to decompose.

These were not the only charges that were placed at the door of the political elite of Greece.

Experts said that a contract in 2014 funded by the European Union to install safety equipment throughout the network, known as contract 717, was not fully implemented after nine years.

The President of the Authority said that all those who were late in implementing 717 contributed decisively to the death of these children, “Contract 717 was not the specified goal for our achievement, but let me say, and I do not refer to the rank and file of OSE but rather senior officials, everyone who delayed the implementation of 717 contributed decisively to the death of these children.”

Many people suspect that the boxes have been dissipated, and 1.3 million people have signed a petition to strip the cabinet ministers of immunity so that the transport ministers can be tried across four governments.

On the day of the accident alone, and within a few kilometers of Larissa, who put the trainer manager in a collision course, the authority found a large number of human and technical problems that contributed to the disaster.

The Larissa station manager was not properly trained to use the installed automatic controls, so he returned to a manual system that did not explain to him what the track trains were. If I had used it, he would have seen that he had unintentionally changing the passenger train into a veiled path south.

The reference to the north was from the station that was supposed to have been repaired under contract 717 outside the ranking, which means that the station manager should give the train engineers permission to go verbally. The investigators said that the recordings that were leaked to the conversation between them show that they did not follow the appropriate verbal protocol, and the station manager ordered the engineer to move forward without making sure that it was on the southern track.

Two parts of the northern and southern Larissa track returned to the use of a mono path on the day of the accident due to technical failures. The train engineer did not think that it was strange that he was on the southern track, and did not question it.

Try to cover up?

The new conservative Democratic Party was also accused of trying to cover up.

“We have faced serious problems in the investigation,” said Babadmeterio. “The crash site turned into a festive space to lose serious evidence.”

A lot of gravel was caught from the site after the accident, apparently to rebuild the paths and restore the railway service, but it has been hurriedly, the rolling stocks are still broken despite the human remains as it was raised away.

The relatives of the victims rented the Anubis Colding K9 team, which specializes in body recovery. Anopis found parts of many victims, including the parties to Blakes girls, nine months after the accident.

The government’s hurry caused suspicions that it was trying to avoid the chemical analysis of the waste left after the accident.

The observation video shows an electric arc that ignites two explosions after the effect. The investigators said: “There is a possible presence of unknown fuel yet,” The investigators said. “The site of the accident site has not been an appropriate in an appropriate way to be able to determine the type of fuel that was transferred and caused a fire ball,” said Bernd Ako, one of the investigators.

In 2023, two official reports of the Helene Fire Excellence service and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation of Blame on the fire on silicone oils leaked from the locomotive transformers files.

Relatives of the victims did not believe that the chemical studies that were assigned them, which showed that there are potential residues of Zelin, a flammable solvent used in paints, varnish and inks.

Investigators said that the fire killed only five to seven victims, but the suspected cover -up became a shocking rod for anger among the public, accusing the government of being more determined to protect the undetestable loyalists from providing safe transport.

Blakes said: “The government position from the beginning was an attempt to cover matters at the level of political and public relations because this happened on March 1 and on May 16 we held general elections,” Blakes said. “The government was afraid of political repercussions and acted with amateurs.”

Experts said the collision at a joint speed of 240 kilometers per hour (150 miles per hour) was very violent, as it destroyed the first six of the passengers from the passenger train.

This is because the passenger train locomotives and the next shipping train went out of their path while destroying each other, which exposes the passenger train restaurant car to a secondary collision with flat cars carrying steel panels. The investigation report said that in the restaurant car, the fire burned the longest and most violent.