Years of disasters, scandals, failures fuel Greece's rail crash protests


FILE PHOTO: Firefighters operate at the site of a crash, where two trains collided, near the city of Larissa, Greece, March 1, 2023. REUTERS/Thanos Floulis/File Photo

ATHENS (Reuters) - Evi Tsapari is slowly healing from the trauma of escaping bloodied through the window of a burning passenger train after a collision that left dozens dead in central Greece in 2023. But she says she is still waiting for justice.

Despite investigators blaming safety failures and decades of neglect of Greece's railways, no top politician has faced investigation over the worst crash in the country's history - in part, critics say, because of laws that protect them from prosecution.

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