The government has decided not to appeal judicial decisions compensation, recognising the Tebes accident as a case of major social importance.
In a move with a strong symbolic and practical footprint, the Council of Ministers has taken a step forward by approving the joint proposal of Kyriakos Pierrakakis and Konstantinos Kyranakis. The ruling concerns the designation of the Tebon railway tragedy as a case of “particular social importance”, which allows the state to become immune from further legal claims against the families of the victims.
According to the recommendation of the Minister of National Economy and the Deputy Minister of Transport, the central government and its agencies will not pursue legal remedies (appeals or appeals) in cases involving compensation for moral damages and mental anguish. The regulation aims to put an end to years of judicial suffering of the relatives and to speed up the performance of justice at the economic level.
The regulation concerns compensation awarded to victims’ relatives for the mental anguish they suffered, and for material damage to the injured. In this context, the Public Sector will not exercise any legal remedies against the relevant decisions, and will also be sustained from those already exercised, so as not to prolong the legal proceedings and the suffering of the people affected.
This direction had been announced by the Minister of National Economy and Finance Kyriakos Pierrakakis and is part of a steady effort by the State in recent years to substantially support those who have been faced with major tragedies. The decisions on Mati and Mandra had been made in the same spirit, with the aim of limiting the long legal suffering of those affected, while for the first adjudicated decisions on compensation for Tempi, the State had withdrawn its right to appeal, at the urging of the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Constantinos Kyranakis.
With the adoption of this recommendation, the government confirms its willingness to deal in a fair and just manner with cases with a strong social footprint, based on the new framework law introduced by the Vice President of the Government, Kostis Hatzidakis, and passed by the Parliament, ensuring on the one hand the faster administration of justice and on the other hand the avoidance of further burdens for the families of the victims and the injured.
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