The opposition had put ahead the vote after a report within the To Vima newspaper alleged an audio file, which was leaked to the media within the hours following the head-on collision between the 2 trains, had been doctored to make it seem the accident was attributable to human error slightly than by Greece’s growing old rail community.
Forward of the parliamentary vote Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis dismissed the report as “deceptive,” arguing the total transcripts had been “out there to the judicial authorities from the start.”
“You might be saying that my concern and thought was to tamper with these dialogues. Aren’t you ashamed to say so?” he requested. “It’s respectable for enterprise individuals and publishers to need to affect politics. Allow them to get into the world themselves and never by proxy.”
Earlier within the day, two high Mitsotakis aides — Minister of State Stavros Papastavrou and Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister Yiannis Bratakos — resigned after allegedly spending an evening on the home of media mogul and shipowner Evangelos Marinakis, who additionally owns To Vima. The gathering befell a day after the paper revealed its damning story.
The Greek authorities has confirmed the assembly occurred, though Bratakos and Papastavrou have but to remark. State Minister Makis Voridis dismissed the occasion as a mere social gathering.
Greek information web site iEidiseis, describing the gathering, mentioned “the whiskey flowed abundantly and was interrupted just for smoking the luxurious cigars,” including: “The ‘stern messages’ changed into loads of wine, cigars and whiskey.”
