Greece’s Supreme Court Prosecutor has ordered an urgent public prosecutor’s investigation into missing CCTV video of one of the trains involved in the deadly collision outside Tempi.
The public prosecutor is still missing CCTV video material that shows the south-bound freight train being loaded up and leaving the Thessaloniki train station, though there have been allegations that the train was carrying flammable materials that lead to further combustion and death in the tragic crash.
An expert commission created at the instigation of victims’ families has alleged that evidence of a flammable substance was found at the site of the crash.
Some video material has been analyzed both by the Hellenic Police Directorate of Criminal Investigations and a forensic investigator in the UK, though the start of the freight train’s journey remains opaque.
“We send you the attached publications and ask you to conduct an urgent preliminary examination in order to investigate why the material from the cameras of the Thessaloniki railway station, which was delivered by the managers of the company responsible for their management to the Investigating Magistrate of the Tempi case […] did not contain the video recordings from the engine room of Thessaloniki, in which the loading of the commercial train took place, in order to prove the commission of any self-prosecuted acts of merit,” stated the The order of supreme court prosecutor.
Previous investigations by To Vima revealed that the recordings of spoken exchanges between the stationmaster and train drivers in Larissa were tampered with before being handed over to authorities.
