Maria Karystianou claims that “I will continue even if I am alone”, “I will do everything to see those responsible for the death of my child in prison” for the crime of Tempe.
The President of the Association of Relatives-Victims of Tempo spoke, on Friday night, on the show “Contradictions” on “CRETE TV”.
She said that “now I know that I will not be alone”.
“Of course I’m very annoying to anyone guilty because I ask questions, shout, protest… That’s a problem if you’re guilty. It is much better to have a mute person who sits at home quietly and mourns.
No I don’t belong to that category, I belong to the other category. I belong to the mother who would do anything to see those responsible for her child’s death in prison. I belong to this category. And I’m very proud if you want about it,” said the mother of 20-year-old Martha, who died in Tempi, unequivocally.
“For so many years they all knew about the problems of the railway”
“I don’t know what they would have done if – oh no, something like this had happened to them and how they would have handled it. I consider it defeatist to sit – because we are talking about murder – mute and idle and I am very much okay with what I am doing, I feel that my child is proud of what I am doing and I feel that this is what I would like to do. And I will do! I will continue. (…) Even if I am left alone, which I will not be alone, however. Now I know that I will not be alone”, noted Maria Karystianou.
At the same time, he also explained why he characterizes what happened in Tempi as a “crime”.
“How can I describe the fact that for so many years they all knew about the problems of the railway and were so cynically indifferent. How else; They made the people like that, “let’s go wherever it comes out” running at 160 kilometers per hour, when they knew that nothing was working, no signals, nothing, nothing… There was no safety system.
I can’t describe it in any other way and the subsequent process, after all that happened, where did the respect for the dead, for the families go? Where did the wagons, the dirt fly with such haste from the first 24 hours? The collection of the human remains was not even completed, they tampered with the site and therefore interfered with the judiciary.
Only crime (…). I had said it then and in the examination room. We’re really talking about a bunch of violations, a bunch of criminal offenses. In our case it is not one or two things. It is a heap of offenses and we are called upon to prove that we are not elephants. I mean, this thing is unthinkable. And the explosion? By what right did the first experts say they would not deal with the explosion? I did not understand. When 30 people were burned.
Well, we want to know why the explosion happened and why political figures tried to prevent us from it. To eliminate the evidence in any way they could. Overtly,” he added, among other things.
“They tell us to wait for justice to do its job and interfere with the investigative work”
Maria Karystianou did not hesitate to call it “intrusive and suspicious that Mr. Mitsotakis only wants us to listen to their own experts who did not deal with the explosion at all.”
He did not fail to comment on the “all for the rubbish” of the minister of justice and the prime minister (in the discussion of the motion of no confidence) who characterized as conspiracy theories the evidence that the relatives of the victims have highlighted, regarding the detection of chemicals and flammable substances in the area, “The Prime Minister and Mr. Floridis are very intrusive. They tell us to wait for justice to do its job and interfere with the investigative work.”
In addition, Maria Karystianou underlined that “There are definitely good judges. The problem is whether the government-appointed chief justice can control the government. I have no confidence in her, that’s why I turned to Europe.”
As for the applause for Mr. Costas Ah. Karamanlis from the government MPs, emphasized that “I went to the scene again that day. I was ashamed as a human being… The applause could have been absent… Out of respect.”
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