Regarding the amendment concerning the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and pending the trial for the Tempe tragedy, Nikos Plakias spoke out – a man who lost his daughters and niece in the deadly train disaster. Speaking on Wednesday morning (22.10) on the show “To Proino,” Nikos Plakias emphasized among other things that the case file has been “split” significantly, and that political figures should also sit in the dock, a demand from those who lost loved ones in the rail tragedy.
Plakias on Tempe: “I’m haunted by the lack of accountability for politicians”
As he characteristically stated: “You know something, at the end of the day we don’t want them to tell us ‘what a shame,’ to pity us. Life goes on for us too. Of course it doesn’t continue intact, it will always continue without these 3 girls we see. I only see them when they appear on TV shows, because I don’t even have photos at home. Sorry, but we still can’t accept what we’ve lost, what has happened to us,” with host George Liagas asking not to show images of the girls who lost their lives.
When asked what still haunts and saddens him, Nikos Plakias said: “The lack of accountability for politicians. 36 in the main trial in Larissa, 7 in the Supreme Court for the cover-up with Mr. Triantopoulos, 5 court clerks and Mr. Karamanlis in the judicial council… Trials everywhere. The case file has been split into three parts and we sit here dealing with whether Mitsotakis’s amendment passed yesterday to prevent gatherings at Syntagma Square. As if it will offer anything. Instead of sitting down to vote on another amendment, the abolition of Article 86, and having Karamanlis and every Karamanlis come to the natural court where I and the other relatives are, they sit and vote on whether you can go write the names, whether you can hold a demonstration at Syntagma. We’re moving away from the essence.”
“Now that the trials are approaching, they’re doing this to distract people”
As he said ahead of the upcoming trial, “if no responsibility is assigned to any politician, then we will have failed on the issue of justice.” Finally, referring to the amendment regarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier monument, Nikos Plakias said “Why is this happening now after two years? Now that the trials are approaching, they’re doing this to distract people.”
