New political storm heads towards PM following report on Tempe recordings

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Disasters, Mitsotakis, New Democracy, Parliament, PASOK-KINAL, SYRIZA
Photo by Panayiotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos
Photo by Panayiotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is on an official visit to Canada, faces a political storm on his return to Athens amid accusations that his government was involved in the doctoring of audio recordings connected to the Tempe train crash in order to make the claim that the accident was solely the result of human error more plausible.

Sunday’s edition of To Vima contained a report which claimed that an audio clip of the station master in Larissa, central Greece, referring to a train being on the wrong tracks had been edited to make it appear as if he was talking about one of the trai...

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