Huge protests yesterday in Greece over 2023 Tempi train crash (www.902.gr)

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Yesterday streets all over Greece as well as other countries too flooded with people to fight for justice for the 57 lives that were lost in an "accident" that workers were warning against for years. No safety measure was working, many of them not implemented at all, and it was then pinned on the human error of just one person. Recently it was uncovered that 30 of those people did not die from the crash, but from the chemical explosion and fire that erupted afterwards, resulting from the illegal substance carried by a passenger train, something that is still being denied by the government. This is all a result of many different governments over the years privatizing and selling out the public train system to capitalists.

Since then, no justice has been seen despite the huge public support for it, instead the state is actively trying to hide evidence and slow down judicial processes.

Several politicians and "journalists" had come out condemning the upcoming protests, and saying that justice is served in the courtroom and not in the streets. The people have answered and proved they won't forget this until we see them behind bars.

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[-] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

It really had a loooot of people

If anyone wants to learn more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempi_train_crash

[-] itsraining@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago

The state media coverage on this demonstration was virtually nonexistent - 3-4 minutes in total on ERT NEWS, a 24-h(!) news channel.

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