Greece | Massive crowds protests turn violent

Massive Protests in Greece, Hundreds of Thousands Gather and Throw Petrol Bombs at Police
Per the BBC:
In the centre of Athens alone the crowd was put at hundreds of thousands, and big numbers were seen in Thessaloniki, Larissa and Ioannina, as well as many other cities.

“For those of us who had children on that train, a part of our soul remained there and will never return,” said Maria Karystianou, the head of the Tempi victims’ association, whose daughter Marthi was among those killed in the tragedy.

It was during the night of 28 February 2023 that a passenger train packed with students collided head-on with a goods train near the Tempi gorge in central Greece.

The report by Greece’s Air and Rail Accident Investigation Authority warned that the safety failings exposed by the crash had not yet been addressed. “Those children were killed because the train was not safe,” said the authority’s chief Christos Papadimitriou.

The Tempi rail disaster shocked Greeks with many accusing their conservative government of doing too little to shed light on the causes of the tragedy. There is a widely held belief that the government has sought to cover up the role of high-ranking officials.

Massive Greece protests turn violent