Tempe rallies held across the world
Protests have taken place or are expected to take place in some 124 cities in Europe, the United States and Australia.
In Cyprus, four large rallies were held in Nicosia, Limassol Larnaca and Paphos. Two of the victims of the train collision were two Cypriot students, 24-year-old Anastasia Adamidou and 23-year-old Kyprianos Papaioannou.
In Brussels, around a thousand people gathered on Place du Luxembourg near the European Parliament.
A rally was also held in the Japanese capital Tokyo, where attendees held banners reading “I have no oxygen.”
Chanting “we are the voice of all the dead, this crime will not be covered up,” Greek expats demonstrated outside the Greek consulate general of Greece in Manhattan, New York, and in Athens Square, Astoria.
More than 150 people took part in a rally in Rome’s Esquilino Square, while protests were also held in Milan, Naples, Perugia, Lecce, Florence and Calabria.
Dozens attended a protest rally was also organized in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.
In Belgrade, Serbian students marched from the university to the Greek Embassy, behind a large banner that read: “Your struggle is our struggle!” The students also held Greek and Serbian flags as well as placards with slogans condemning corruption and calling for justice.
Those in attendance observed a minute’s silence in memory of the 57 Tempe victims as well as the 15 people who died when a concrete canopy at a railway station Novi Sad collapsed last November.
