Greece’s Prime Minister on Sunday requested for forgiveness from the households of the 57 lifeless within the nation’s worst rail catastrophe as 1000’s of livid protesters rallied in Athens and clashed with police.

“As Prime Minister, I owe it to everybody, however particularly to the victims’ Family Members, (to ask for) forgiveness,” Kyriakos Mitsotakis wrote in a message addressed to the nation.

“For the Greece of 2023, two trains heading in several instructions can not run on the identical line and nobody discover,” PM Mitsotakis stated within the message posted on his Fb web page.

The crash between passenger and freight trains close to town of Larissa on Tuesday has sparked widespread outrage throughout Greece.

1000’s of offended demonstrators gathered exterior the parliament in Athens on Sunday following a name by college students, rail employees and public sector staff.

AFP journalists noticed violent clashes erupt between police and the protesters.

That they had launched lots of of black balloons into the sky in reminiscence of the lifeless, with some holding indicators studying “Down with killer governments”, whereas practice and metro companies have been paralysed by strike motion.

Michalis Hasiotis, head of the chartered accountants’ union, advised AFP they felt “an immense anger”, blaming “the thirst for revenue, the shortage of measures taken for the passengers’ safety” for the catastrophe.

Kinfolk and family members of these killed have been additionally anticipated to collect Sunday for a memorial exterior Larissa station, central Greece, close to the positioning of the accident.

The station grasp implicated within the catastrophe was due in courtroom on Sunday, a listening to postponed from yesterday, the place he might face prices of negligent murder.