This Thursday’s strike was called by unions in the public and private sectors and is marked by nationwide demonstrations.
More than 40,000 people demonstrate this Thursday in Greece, as part of a general strike, two weeks after the railway disaster that killed 57 people.
According to a police spokesman, quoted by France Presse, 40,000 people demonstrated throughout the country, 25,000 of whom in the capital, Athens.
On March 8, more than 65,000 people demonstrated in Greece, according to figures provided by the police.
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According to the Spanish agency Efe, Greece woke up this Thursday “paralyzed” by the 24-hour strike whose main claim is to hold the “true culprits” responsible for the train accident on February 28.
This Thursday’s strike was called by unions in the public and private sectors and is marked by nationwide demonstrations.
In Athens, public transport is practically paralyzed, except minimum metro services to facilitate the movement of citizens who intend to participate in the protests.
This strike was also joined by air traffic controllers and the merchant marine and passenger transport.
A large part of the air connections in Greece were cancelled, ships remain in ports and trains stop all over the country.
At the beginning of the month, railway workers in Greece staged a ten-day strike to protest the deterioration of the sector. Teachers also joined the strike on Thursday, so schools are closed.
ADEDY declared this Thursday, through a statement, that the “workers demand that everything be found out about the crime in Tempe”, the place where the train accident occurred.
The union also calls for an end to the “privatization policies which they point out as the main cause of the deterioration of the railway sector.
On February 28, at 11:21 p.m. (9:21 p.m. in Lisbon), a passenger train collided head-on with a freight train north of the city of Larisa, in the Tempe area, killing 57 people. , most students. University students.
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The prime minister has already recognized that this area of the railway, in particular, was not equipped with the security systems that could have prevented the tragedy.
First, the chief executive blamed the station chief as the author of “a human error”, but then changed the statement to ask for “apologies and acknowledgment of political responsibilities”.
Source: Observadora
