The confirmation of the presence of the commercial train involved in the Tempi tragedy, and the assessment that there was no illegal cargo on it, via the videos submitted by Interstar to the appellate investigator, changes the balance, with the government preparing to go on the offensive. Already, through government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis (Mega), the Maximou Mansion is making it clear that the basic argument of a cover-up, which has long been attributed to Maximou Mansion, is being refuted.

The government believes that with the final certification of the authenticity of the videos by the Criminal Investigations Directorate of the Hellenic Police Department that follows, “another myth” of the Tempi case will have been debunked, such as the scenario of the existence of tons of xylene, the wagon that “vaporized” after the explosion and other things. “It’s one thing to look for why an explosion happened, what was being carried, to provide answers, why? Was it the engines, one or the other, and it’s another thing to say that a priori we accept that an illegal cargo was being carried, and the government, even the prime minister himself was covering up the carrier,” Marinakis stressed in the same interview.

“No to squares”

The government, of course, has also been alerted by “degenerative” phenomena that point to scenes of…indignation. It started with the attack by Rouvicon with slogans on the house of the new president of the Republic, which the government attributed to the climate of hostility that has been formed against him, culminating in attacks by the opposition. The next episode was the threats revealed to have been received via phone calls and e-mails by the President and the Supreme Court prosecutor Ioanna Klapa and Georgia Adilini. “So we must, each to their share, the political system to their share, put up a firewall to the judicial officers. They do not belong to any party, they do not belong to any government, they do not belong to any opposition, they are one of the components of our democracy. This is a conversation I did not expect that we would have and we did not have it even in the black years, the black years when Greece was on the brink of the precipice,” Marinakis said yesterday, indicating the government’s concern.

Attack on Androulakis

In the same vein, meanwhile, the Maximou Mansion is launching an all-out attack on PASOK president Nikos Androulakis, who said in an interview yesterday on Alpha’s main newscast that, following the wiretapping case, his confidence in the Greek judiciary “has been shaken.” In fact, a government official who attended the interview of the leader of the parliamentary opposition was accusing Androulakis of “flirting with the populist logic“, while assessing that the terrain he chooses to “play” is wrong.

“PASOK and its president have chosen to become one with the most genuine exponents of populism and toxicity. We will continue to erect walls of protection for our institutions and our democracy, which is our greatest duty towards all citizens,” the government said in the aftermath of the Androulakis interview, adding that the PASOK president donned the mantle of a judge while disparaging justice.