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Urgent investigation ordered into videos linked to Tempi

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Larissa appellate-level examining magistrate Sotiris Baikamis on Monday ordered an urgent examination of the three videos handed over to the Tempi train crash investigation by the company responsible for the video surveillance of railway line, on behalf of the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE). The magistrate asked the court-appointed fact-finders who will examine and analyse the videos to answer specific questions, describing the new evidence as “particularly important”.

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The Larissa magistrate who received and confiscated the three videos on February 5 has already ordered the appointed experts – mechanical engineer Apostolos Vasilakis and electrical engineer Stavros Batzopoulos – to inspect and analyse the three videos handed over by a lawyer representing the surveillance company and to certify that the freight train appearing in them is that involved in the fatal head-on collision with the passenger train at Tempi on February 28, 2023.

They are also asked to check whether the material shows whether the train was carrying a tank or a pallet with a number of drums capable of carrying fluids such as fuel, hydrocarbons or solvents, as some of the litigants and their technical advisors are claiming.

Baikamis requested that the two experts deliver their report as soon as possible, given the great importance of the digital material to the essence of the case, especially to determine whether the train was illegally transporting flammable materials at the time of the accident.

In his order, the magistrate noted that the three videos related to the accident were delivered on February 5 in digital form, stored on a SanDisk USB, by the Athens lawyer Vasileios Kapernaros, who was acting on behalf of the company Inter Star Security Ltd. The company was responsible for the video surveillance of the Athens-Thessaloniki railway line at the time of the accident and up until the present.
The experts are asked to verify that the trains appearing in the videos are in fact those involved in the accident on February 28, 2023, citing all the indications and evidence to that effect, and determine whether there is evidence it was illegally carrying flammable substances.

Also read: Tempi: The containers of flammable material on the freight train

Source: ANA-MPA

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