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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Helena Smith in Athens

Chaos on first day of Greece train crash trial as relatives shout ‘shame on you’

Packed courtroom gallery
Relatives of victims at the specially adapted courtroom in Larissa, Greece, on Monday. Photograph: Apostolis Domalis/EPA

A long-awaited trial into Greece’s worst train crash has descended into chaos hours after it began, with relatives of the 57 people killed in the disaster screaming “shame on you” at judges who were forced to adjourn the hearing until next month.

More than three years after the tragedy, grieving families denounced the proceedings as a caricature of justice amid demands the trial be held elsewhere. The five-member panel of judges called multiple recesses on Monday before announcing the hearing would be postponed until 1 April.

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