The daddy of a younger man killed in Greece’s worst rail tragedy in 2023, vowed on Saturday to proceed his 20-day starvation strike “to the tip” to demand solutions on his son’s demise.
“I’ll go to the tip. I’ll keep right here even when I die. I’m not leaving until my demand is justified…. I need to find out how my baby died,” Panos Ruci advised Mega TV.
Ruci, whose 22-year-old son Denis died within the crash, has been protesting in entrance of parliament and refusing meals since September 15 over prosecutors’ refusal to permit an exhumation of his son’s physique.
Medical doctors monitoring Ruci on Friday stated he has misplaced practically 9% of his physique weight and is “at excessive danger of significant problems” to his well being.
57 individuals, most of them younger college students, have been killed in February 2023 when a passenger prepare and a freight prepare collided close to Tempe, central Greece, having been allowed to run on the identical monitor for 12 minutes.
The tragedy sparked sweeping strikes and a whole bunch of protests in Greece and overseas, denouncing the nation’s failure to correctly examine the accident.
Opinion polls have proven a big majority of Greeks consider the federal government tried to cowl up proof into the reason for the crash. The victims’ households consider beneficial proof was misplaced when the crash web site was bulldozed quickly after the accident.
The investigation ended on the finish of August.
A senior decide in Larissa this week ordered 36 individuals to face trial, together with Greek railway officers, executives of Italian-owned working firm Hellenic Practice, and the stationmaster on obligation of the night time of the accident.
However a number of households needed extra toxicology assessments to find out whether or not one of many trains was carrying undeclared chemical compounds that induced an explosion after the crash.
Authorities officers say that reopening the investigation will solely delay the trial, which isn’t anticipated to start till early subsequent yr.
They are saying the households can nonetheless submit exhumation requests as soon as the trial begins.
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