Politics PM Mitsotakis to chair cabinet meeting about new railway safety measures on Thursday

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will chair a cabinet meeting at Maximos Mansion at 11:00 in the morning on Thursday.

Minister of State responsible for infrastructure and transport, Giorgos Gerapetritis, will brief the premier and ministers about improving railway safety measures after the Tempi fatal train crash.

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in the meantime, Protest rallies organised by trade unions, student unions and leftist groups over the deadly train collision in Tempi were underway in the centre of Athens on Wednesday, in Klafthmonos Square, Propylea on Panepistimiou Street and in Syntagma Square. Several trade unions have called a 24-hour strike over the train crash, including the public-sector employees union federation ADEDY.
With demands for a full inquiry and an end to privatisations, protestors marched toward Syntagma Square and the Greek Parliament, where the main body of demonstrators reaching the square at around 15:00.
At the same time, the left-wing trade union faction PAME organised a separate rally and march to Parliament over the rail accident at Propylea, attending by labour organisations, federations, unions, students and pupils.
“This crime will not be covered up. Modern-Safe-Cheap Mass Transportation for the people. Against the criminal policy of profit,” is the slogan that dominates the demonstration, which extended from Omonia to Syntagma Square as people were constantly arriving in downtown Athens to protest.
Police announced that 15 people were detained and that seven arrests were made during the protest rallies. According to police sources, those arrested were caught in possession of items such as flares, stones, bats and hoods. They are being held at the state security police headquarters and will be led before a public prosecutor on Thursday.
Similar demonstrations were taking place in other Greek cities on Wednesday. There were minor clashes between protestors and police in Thessaloniki, where thousands turned out to demonstrate, and a large protest rally organised by students in Lamia and thousands took part in a rally and march held in Larissa. Protest rallies were also organised in the city of Ioannina, the port city of Patras, Chania and Heraklion on Crete and the island of Rhodes, among others.

Source: amna.gr