The transmission of the case file on Tempi to the Parliament is setting in motion developments
It is possible that the majority threw final titles one after the other at the commission of inquiry, avoiding the summoning of crucial witnesses, but it counted without the Appeals Council of Larisa. The decision of the appellant investigator to forward the case file for the crime of Tempo, as documentonews.gr revealed, further exposes the ND. This specific development showed that the zeal of the coalition to cover up the responsibilities of Kostas Karamanlis and the “blue” executives of the co-authorized organizations was such that even the most crucial elements did not interest the authors of the “blue” conclusion of the committee.
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“The governing majority hastened to cover up, it hastened to “fudge” the truth, just as the duo of Mr. Triandopoulos and Agorastos fudged the scene of the crime. Even slowly, however, the truth will shine and justice will be served” commented the rapporteur of the official opposition, Vassilis Kokkalis, underlining that “it is unthinkable for the investigation to complete its work one by one and without having a clear picture of the ongoing judicial investigation”.
According to Documento’s information, the transmission of the case file – the ND did not wish to reach the investigative stage, which Iasonas Fotilas confessed – is expected to cause institutional initiatives by the rapporteur of the main opposition. It is not excluded that the announcement of these initiatives will be accompanied by symbolic movements that will coincide with the annual memorial service for the 57 victims of the railway tragedy.
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Litigation under custody
As competent parliamentary sources told the newspaper, the case file will be in a specially designed room of the parliament and the members of the committee who want to study it will not have the right to get copies. According to the sources, the track record of the Novartis scandal case file will be followed, with a member of Parliament’s guard present in the chamber while MPs read it in order to ensure that no documents are leaked.
Ignoring the persistent requests of the opposition and the relatives of the victims for the summons of – among others – Kostas Genidounias, Filippos Tsalidis, Kostas Spiliopoulos, Christos Triandopoulos and the experts of the victims’ families, the ND… messed up the committee as well. And all this at a time when the case file, which should be a road map for the inquiry committee’s investigation, was unknown if it would be forwarded to parliament.
In any case the intentions of the majority had been made clear since the committee’s curtain rose. The majority tried to deconstruct the witnesses of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and also the European Prosecutor Popi Papandreou herself, while targeting the dead train driver, as a result of which his family sent an extrajudicial trial.
Markopoulos after all
Reactions inside and outside parliament were caused by the way in which the chairman of the committee, Dimitris Markopoulos, carried out his duties. The Member of Parliament II of Piraeus almost got into a fight with Niki’s rapporteur Nikos Vretto, while he collided head-on with almost all the rapporteurs of the other opposition parties.
The fact that he characterized the committee as “crooked” due to the ministerial appointment of two of its members will remain unforgettable, provoking the reaction of Vangelis Vlachos, the brother of the 34-year-old Vaios who lost his life in the accident, saying that he will send D. Markopoulos “57 horns”. . It is no coincidence that the provocative – even thuggish at times – style of the president had the effect of disputing members of the majority, such as Vassilis Ypsilantis.
Crucial testimonies
In addition to the shocking testimony of the “mother of Tempe” Maria Karystianou, who pointed the finger at Chr. Triandopoulos as the government official who gave the order to K. Agorastos for the bottling, the statements of the members of the expert committee that drew up the “Gerapetritis opinion” were also important. All three members argued that if ETCS had existed, the tragedy would have been avoided, while the chairman of the committee, Yiannis Chalkias, described the transfer of the station master as “manifestly illegal”, adding yet another presumption that K. Karamanlis had committed the offense of perjury in the examination room. , as the minority complained.
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