The field in which the new majority and opposition political confrontation will take place on the case of the case Temps delineated after the recommendation of a recommendation pre -trial committee For the former Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Costa Ah. Karamanlis by the New Democracy.
The text of the government majority calls for a pre -trial investigation to determine whether during the period September 2021 – when the then Minister for the then Minister for the OSE underfunding and underfunding were transmitted to the then Minister. misdemeanor her infringement by K. Karamanlis.
For the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport of SYRIZA Government Christos Spirtz It is noted that there is signs of criminal offenses, but it is not requested to refer to pre -trial investigation as a limitation period has been made.
It is recalled that his own proposal has filed PASOK seeking a preliminary investigation against Messrs. Karamanlis Spirtzis and the former Deputy Ministers I. Kefalogiannis, G. Karagiannis, M. Papadopoulos, M. Chrysoveloni, N. Mavragani and Ath. A corresponding joint movement has been announced by the united legal staffs of SYRIZA and the new left as they agree to the choice of offenses and the political persons for whom the referral is set.
ND’s proposal
The legal text of “Blue” presented by protothema.gr lists the whole of the basic findings included in the massive case file by the Respondent Investigator Sotiris Bakaimi on the Tempe case and concludes with the recommendation proposal “Parliamentary committee In accordance with Article 86 (3) of the Constitution for the investigation of any commitment by Konstantinos Karamanlis of Achilles of the act of breach of duty, and in particular during the period from September 2021 until 28/2/2023 in breach of Article 40 (3) of Law 4974/2022 “Railway Organization of Greece SA”, intentionally omission,
- a. to determine a sufficient funding framework for the railway sector,
- b. to ensure that the public resources needed for the maintenance, repair, expansion and renovation of the rail network and the proper training of the budget based on a multi -year strategic rail investment program funded by the co -financed or co -financed and the Thanks to the staffing of OSE SA with the staff necessary for the proper functioning of the staff. “
Majority sources note that the referral of the former minister was exhausted by any legal interpretation and adopted the ultimate threshold in which the ND moves in order not to stood obstacle to further investigating the case by justice.
Characteristically report that the details of case file For the former minister, although not strong for any criminal liability, they may constitute indications required by law on recommendation Special preliminary examination in order to investigate the offense of breach of duty.
More specifically, the New Democracy emphasizes that on the basis of the evidence that the Appellate Investigator to Parliament has been submitted to the House and the entire case file arises as the following 10 points:
1) The ministry’s supervision to OSE and ERGOSE is administrative and does not concern security issues for which the Railway Regulatory Authority (RAS) is responsible, which is an independent authority.
2) OSE is a public limited company, that is, a legal person with administrative and financial independence, manager of the railway infrastructure and responsible for compliance with security rules.
3) The indictment against the two directors of the ministry attributes them, inter alia, that they did not take actions (eg suggestions) to the Minister for any additional measures. There is also a similar note in the indictment against the President of RAS
4) Since the required investigator’s recommendations to the Minister was not made, it is clear that he cannot have a corresponding criminal liability.
5) The genuine differentiation of policy from criminal liability is imperative.
6) If the non -implementation of the additional security systems was born for ministers, for example, the Ministers of Infrastructure should be criminal accountants on a daily basis for accidents that have not been completed (Pyrgos – Patras, BOAK).
7) The study of the entire case file and in particular the evidence transmitted without any evidence that the political leadership of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport of the Audit period made acts dangerous to the safety of transport as required by Article 291 of the Criminal Code, in accordance with the claims.
8) Most importantly: On the day of the accident, OSE SA and Hellenic Train companies, according to the competent national and European authorities, fulfilled the total conditions of safe execution of the route, during which the conflict occurred.
9) Since the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport only plays an administrative role in security issues, the ND proposes the establishment of a preliminary examination committee for Mr Karamanlis to investigate the issues of underfunding and under -staffing of the OSE, which raised the two executives of the Ministry.
10) From the details of the Criminal Court of the Tempi accident, which was attached to the Larissa Investigator’s transmitter document to the Parliament, it is not clear what actions were taken by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Mr Karamanlis to address the two issues that had to deal with the two issues that had taken place. Therefore, further investigation is proposed, although there is no further details in the case file to draw a safe conclusion on these actions.
Majority executives argue that the proposal they have submitted to Parliament is based solely on the facts of the case file while attributing to the opposition an attempt to “political exploitation and tooling the tragedy”.
Reactions
On the other side the PASOK Commenting on the majority’s proposal, he argues, inter alia, that “an outrageous legal offense for Mr Karamanlis is essentially” constructed “, with the sole purpose of the Judicial Council to relieve him with a parliament”.
‘Provocative’ characterizes the proposal SYRIZA Noting, among other things, “at first they were applauded, after rewarding him. Then, after the rallies, they try to fool Greek society, but no one is eating a purse. After Triantopoulos they want to move on to another fast track pre -trial committee, unconstitutional and illegal, with the aim of falling into the soft and Karamanlis only for a misdemeanor. “
Pretext and offensive as the proposal was described by his parliamentary representative KKE Nikos Karathanassopoulos while New left He speaks of the “amnesty of the Tempe Minister”.