Police estimate 60,000 people joined protests across Greece called by labour unions and student groups
A further three railway employees are to face criminal charges in connection with the train crash last week, Greece’s worst ever, that left 57 dead and scores injured.
Judicial authorities investigating the head-on collision of two locomotives in Tempe pressed the charges as outrage over the tragedy showed little sign of abating. Marching through Athens on Thursday, student protesters screamed “murderers” as they directed their fury at state officials blamed for an accident many believe could have been avoided had the nation’s rail network not been so neglected. Most of those killed were young with at least a third of the victims enrolled at university.