US EditionGreece Train Tragedy Trial Adjourned Amid Courtroom Chaos
Thirty-six defendants face charges over the 2023 crash that killed 57, with trial adjourned after courtroom overcrowding and over 350 witnesses expected.
- Following chaotic scenes in an overcrowded courtroom, the trial for Greece's 2023 train collision was adjourned until April 1 after beginning on Monday, March 16.
- Stemming from the March 2026 collision near Tempe, which killed 57, the trial was adjourned after chaotic, overcrowded courtroom scenes.
- The trial involves more than 30 defendants, including Vassilios Samaras and officials from the Hellenic Railways Organisation and Hellenic Train, with 350 witnesses scheduled.
- Relatives of victims were 'packed like sardines,' and lawyers called the courtroom 'insultingly' unsuitable, according to reports.
- Allegations of corruption in the Greek state were raised, and officials blamed overcrowding on a higher-than-expected number of observers.
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The trial of the railway accident in Larissa, Greece, opened this morning. But families shouted their outrage in the courtroom, denouncing "insulting" conditions, forcing the President of the Court to adjourn the hearing until April 1. - Greece: barely opened, the trial of the country's worst rail disaster adjourned after tensions at the hearing (International).
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The first day of the trial for the most serious railway accident Greece has suffered was marked by the tension and strong criticism of the survivors and relatives of the victims, who denounced technical problems and the lack of space in the courtroom: "We had requested that the trial not be held here", declared the media Panos Routsis, father of one of the victims and who was on hunger strike for 23 days to request the exhumation and the carryin…
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Greece train tragedy trial adjourned amid courtroom chaos
A long-awaited trial into Greece's worst train tragedy was adjourned to April 1 after starting on Monday amid chaotic scenes in a courtroom too small to handle the huge interest in the case, officials said.
The families of the 57 people killed on 28 February 2023 shouted their anger in the courtroom, denouncing organizational conditions deemed "insulting." The trial was to determine the responsibilities in the frontal collision of two trains, on 28 February 2023, which had killed 57 people.
The indicted stationmasters, former railway executives and transport officials, were scheduled to appear from this Monday in the centre of the country, while a strike by the stationary railway workers throughout the country.
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