{"id":15212,"date":"2026-04-29T12:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/tempe-trial-defendant-sues-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:44:20","slug":"tempe-trial-defendant-sues-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/tempe-trial-defendant-sues-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempe trial defendant sues minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1302259\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tempe_trial-320x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tempe_trial.jpg\" alt=\"Tempe trial defendant sues minister\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tempe_trial-960x600.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>[Intime News]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>A former inspector for Hellenic Railways, the state-owned company that oversees Greece\u2019s rail networks, who finds himself accused of dereliction of duty in the trial about Greece\u2019s deadliest rail disaster, said Tuesday, through his lawyer, that he will sue Alternate Infrastructure and Transport Minister Konstantinos Kyrianakis over a written statement he submitted to the Office of the State Counsel regarding the presence, in the trial, of lawyers representing the ministry in support of the prosecution\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>Kyranakis had referred to the \u201cmoral injury\u201d and material damage suffered by the state because of the disruption of transport operations as a result of the Feb. 28, 2023 accident, which killed 57. Disruption of transport operations, a felony, is the most serious charge faced by some of the 36 defendants. The inspector said that he will sue the minister for slander and false accusation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/news\/1302259\/tempe-trial-defendant-sues-minister\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intime News] A former inspector for Hellenic Railways, the state-owned company that oversees Greece\u2019s rail networks, who finds himself accused of dereliction of duty in the trial about Greece\u2019s deadliest rail disaster, said Tuesday, through his lawyer, that he will sue Alternate Infrastructure and Transport Minister Konstantinos Kyrianakis over a written statement he submitted to &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Tempe trial defendant sues minister\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/tempe-trial-defendant-sues-minister\/#more-15212\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tempe trial defendant sues minister\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tempe_trial-960x600.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}