Immunity hangs over rail crash case

A man injured in the Tempe train crash which killed 57 people on February 28, 2023, has sued then-transport minister Kostas Karamanlis, adding to an already heavy dossier of charges.

The findings of a parliamentary committee investigating the case, which ended in each of the seven parliamentary parties drafting its own report, will be discussed in a plenary session Wednesday, and the Karamanlis file, submitted by judicial authorities to Parliament because the charges are against an officeholder, is certain to feature prominently in what is shaping up to be an acrimonious debate.

The lawsuit against Karamanlis, who resigned as a minister the day after the disaster, and was re-elected as MP a couple of months later, alleges manslaughter with likely intent, compromising the safety of transport, resulting in grievous bodily harm and the harm itself.

But a law on ...