Various brawls erupted at protests in Athens when groups of protesters threw Molotov cocktails at riot police, who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.

“Let the bloody government resign” could be read on a banner raised by the protesters, while another called for “Do not cover up the crime in Tempe,” a town not far from where the incident took place.

The protests and strikes that have taken place in Greece since the accident require their liquidation.”real duties“for the accident.

“There was already an atmosphere of discontent and tension that has now reached its peak” over the tragedy, Vasiliki, a 32-year-old teacher who describes the policies adopted by recent governments in the transport sector as “criminal” told EFE.

The government of the Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis initially defended the thesis that the accident was due to human error and so far, four railroad workers have been charged, including a stationmaster who put a passenger train and a freight train on the same track, eventually leading to a collision.

Faced with pressure on the street, Mitsotakis eventually apologized and acknowledged the lack of security systems in large parts of the rail network, such as the section where the accident occurred.