Relatives of passengers who died during the train collision at Tempi in central Greece in February filed charges against railroad officials and politicians, including the prime minister, on Tuesday.

According to Christos Konstantinidis, spokesperson for the association of victims' relatives, the latter are suing the prime minister, related ministers of the current government and of previous governments, and railroad officials. The suit was filed with the prosecutor of the Larissa Appeals Court.

The aim is an investigation going back 15 years, to look for other liabilities that led to the deadly accident.

A passenger and a freight train travelling in opposite directions on the same Athens-Thessaloniki track collided late at night on February 28, 2023, killing 57 passengers, several of them young college students returning to school.