{"id":3013,"date":"2025-01-31T15:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/government-and-pasok-clash-over-tempe-disaster\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:43:40","slug":"government-and-pasok-clash-over-tempe-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/government-and-pasok-clash-over-tempe-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Government and PASOK clash over Tempe disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/db15e10cc9cab857955362c13b7485ee_parliament-intime-320x200.jpg?v=1733780192\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/db15e10cc9cab857955362c13b7485ee_parliament-intime.jpg?v=1733780192\" alt=\"Government and PASOK clash over Tempe disaster\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/db15e10cc9cab857955362c13b7485ee_parliament-intime-960x600.jpg?v=1733780192\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>[Giorgos Zachos\/Intime News]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The government and main opposition PASOK clashed over the Tempe disaster on Friday, following accusations from PASOK spokesperson Kostas Tsoukalas, who claimed that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis lied when he stated shortly after the accident that there was no illegal cargo on the freight train.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In his recent interview, Mitsotakis attributed this claim to reports he received from the Fire Department and Hellenic Train.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFifteen days after the accident, the prime minister didn\u2019t say \u2018I have information\u2019 or \u2018I believe,\u2019 he expressed with certainty that there was nothing flammable that could have caused the fire,\u201d Tsoukalas said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Friday, government sources responded, accusing Tsoukalas of deliberate misinformation and calling on him to retract his statements. They pointed to that the prime minister based his statements on the Fire Department\u2019s report issued shortly after the disaster.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe knows, as does everyone following the Tempe tragedy, that in the first on-site investigation report compiled by Fire Department investigators on March 1, 2023, it was clearly stated that the fire was caused by the collision of the two trains,\u201d government sources said, urging Tsoukalas to aknowledge the facts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tsoukalas countered by questioning how the Prime Minister could have categorically ruled out the presence of flammable materials based solely on a preliminary inspection report.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDid he just conclude on his own that the fire was caused by engine oil? How did he rely on a mere \u2018preliminary inspection report\u2019 to categorically reject the presence of flammable material?\u201d Tsoukalas asked, calling on the government to tell the truth about the incident.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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\/politics\/1260291\/government-and-pasok-clash-over-tempe-disaster\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Giorgos Zachos\/Intime News] The government and main opposition PASOK clashed over the Tempe disaster on Friday, following accusations from PASOK spokesperson Kostas Tsoukalas, who claimed that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis lied when he stated shortly after the accident that there was no illegal cargo on the freight train. 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