Thousands of people have rallied in central Athens to protest over the country’s deadliest train disaster that killed 57 people on Feb. 28, as Greece’s largest labor unions geared up for a nationwide strike.
The head-on collision of a passenger train with a freight train nearly two weeks ago has stirred public anger and daily protests against the conservative government and a political system that has repeatedly ignored calls by railway unions to improve safety systems.
More than 10,000 supporters of the Communist PAME group, public sector workers, pensioners and university students joined the protest.