Marinakis further labelled the opposition as “political leeches” for supporting the Tempe victims’ families. He went on to clarify his earlier statement about the distinction between genuinely supporting the victims’ families and exploiting their grief for political gain.

He also accused the opposition of politicising the accident in a manner he described as toxic, unsubstantiated, and rife with insults and defamation.

Responding to inquiries about whether the former Minister of Transport, Kostas A. Karamanlis, might seek a special pre-investigation committee like his predecessor Christos Spirtzis, Marinakis expressed uncertainty. He highlighted that Spirtzis made the request knowing that legislative amendments introduced in 2019 would exempt him from criminal prosecution. Essentially, he implied that Spirtzis’s move was essentially a procedural formality.

The backdrop to these discussions includes requests from Maria Karystianou and Pavlos Aslanidis, relatives of the Tempe tragedy victims, for the removal of parliamentary immunity from former transport ministers Costas A. Karamanlis (from the ruling New Democracy) and Christos Spirtzis (from Syriza).

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