War of words over Tempe tampering claim

The government has denied claims in a Sunday newspaper that the audio recordings allegedly between a stationmaster and a driver taken on the night of the Tempe railway disaster were tampered with before their publication in the media.

In a report headlined "The montage in Tempe casts new shadows on tragedy," the Vima on Sunday newspaper claimed that different recordings between railway employees were stitched together so as to give the impression that the disaster, which claimed the lives of 57 people, was the result of human error on the part of the Larissa station master.

Government sources, however, said that the investigating authorities have complete sets of recordings from the night in question. They also argue that the paper's revelation is not new, as a few days after the train crash, some media outlets - including state broadcaster ERT - already revealed that...