A crowd-counting app developed to estimate how many people might be in a given area suggests almost 430,000 people attended the Athens rally marking the second anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster.
Several hundred thousand people demonstrated in Athens, demanding justice for the Tempe railway disaster, two years after the train collision that claimed the lives of 57 people.
Greece faces legal pressure over the treatment of unaccompanied migrant minors in an overcrowded reception center on the eastern Aegean island of Samos.
Police in Athens have said they detained 125 people during the protests and subsequent riots on Friday marking the second anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster.
The ongoing, labyrinthine investigation into the tragic train crash at Tempe, central Greece, on the night of February 28, 2023, undermines its already vulnerable credibility.
All Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria, including US-allied Syrian Kurdish forces, must lay down their weapons after the peace call from the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Turkey’s ruling AK Party has said.
The president of the Tempe Victims’ Association, Maria Karystianou, demanded justice in her speech before hundreds of thousands of people who flooded Syntagma Square to mark the second anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster.
Political parties have reacted to the mass protests that saw hundreds of thousands of citizens take to the streets in nationwide demonstrations marking the second anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster and the riots that followed them in Athens.
Actions and oversights dating from several years before two trains crashed head-on in the Vale of Tempe, central Greece, on the night of February 28, 2023 to the days and hours after the tragedy are still in the judicial spotlight.