Dimitris Papangelopoulos, a former Alternate Justice Minister in the left-led Syriza government from 2015-19 has been condemned on two counts of dereliction of duty by a special court but got slapped with a €10,000 fine instead of a prison sentence.
The tragic rail collision in northern Greece earlier this week that killed dozens of passengers and injured scores of others was the result of an almost 10-year history of omissions and incorrect – maybe even intentionally harmful – handling of the country’s railways.
Jazz-funk legend James Taylor – one of the great British Hammond players – and his quartet, who have been selling out venues big and small all over the world for some three decades, are coming to Athens.
Sustainable fashion designer Amy Powney is celebrated in ‘Fashion Reimagined,’ directed by Becky Hutner, which was screened as part of the Geocultura section of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
Staff at the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) tend to be older, with an average age of 42 against the European Union average of 55, and the majority appears to be concentrated in Athens and Thessaloniki, facts and figures from the company have shown.
Rescuers continued digging through debris on Saturday at the site of Greece’s worst train crash but were expected to wrap up their search operation later in the day.
A 59-year-old Hellenic Train station manager arrested over a deadly collision between a passenger train and a freighter in northern Greece last Tuesday was on Saturday given one more day to prepare his defense.
Thanassis Ziliaskopoulos, a professor of production and transportation at the University of Thessaly, has withdrawn from the newly established, three-member rail disaster committee tasked with finding what led to the deadly train collision last Tuesday, after opposition parties noted that his previous job as CEO of TrainOSE (currently Hellenic Train) raised questions of impartiality.
In the wake of the tragic train crash in Greece, in which at least 57 people – mostly young students – lost their lives, the question on everyone’s mind is: How could this happen? While there have been promises to investigate the causes of the crash and ensure nothing like this happens again,
Mirela Ruci reacts as she waits to hear news about her 22-year-old missing son Denis Ruci, outside a hospital in Larissa city, about 355 kilometers (222 miles) north of Athens, on Friday.