Damning indictment over Tempe

Just 10 months before the deadly railway collision at Tempe, central Greece, on February 28, the European Public Prosecutor's Office initiated an inquiry, which culminated in a 106-page indictment.

An unnamed whistleblower had produced a thorough report at the time, alleging a series of irregularities in the execution of contract 717, which was for the installation of a telecommand system on the railway network.

The indictment has implicated 26 non-political suspects, primarily staff of ERGOSE, the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE)'s projects branch and TOMI-Alstom consortium officials, who have already been ordered to get copies of the case file and offer written responses.

In a 10-page report submitted at the time to the office of the European Public Prosecutors in Athens, the whistleblower had issued an ominous warning.

"The worst thing is that in...