Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made an extraordinary statement after his return from the scene of the tragedy in Tempi, Larissa. Mitsotakis spoke about the unspeakable pain of the relatives of the victims and the missing. I was asked “why”, he pointed out, and was told, “never again” by the relatives.

Mitsotakis spoke of a tragedy that will remain engraved in our collective memory, stressing that dozens of our fellow citizens were lost, most of them young children. He also referred to the resignation of Kostas Karamanlis and announced his replacement, until the elections, by Giorgos Gerapetritis, while making it known that the heads of OSE and ERGOSE also resigned.

The PM said a cross-party committee would be set up to investigate the causes of the crash and the project delays.