The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Greece has charged 23 suspects for crimes related to the execution of traffic control and signalling contracts along the central Greek rail axis Athens-Thessaloniki-Promachonas. 18 of them are public officials. The charges are based on evidence from an investigation that the EPPO started in November 2022, four months before a fatal collision due to lack of functioning signalling occurred on that railway section in March 2023, killing 57 people.