On 28 February 2023 Hellenic Train’s Intercity 62 passenger train, running
on the route Athens – Thessaloniki, carrying more than 350 passengers, collided
with the commercial train 63503 which ran the Thessaloniki-Larissa route. The two
trains were in opposite directions on the same track for about 12 minutes and collided
each other at 23:21. Tragic result of a fatal train accident with 57
dead and at least 85 injured.
The Union of Photojournalists of Greece called the photojournalists who covered this crime
train accident and the mass demonstrations that followed it throughout the country, yes
participate in the realization of a photographic exhibition.
The report of E.F.E. with the title “Eleven and Twenty” seeks to contribute to a common effort that will meet with the local community, with unions and mass organizations, farmers, students and students of Thessaly, so that collectively the logic of “let’s go and wherever come out”.
With this report, the Union seeks to put a stone so that the feelings of sadness and
of anger, to be turned into knowledge for highlighting the eternal causes, so that this crime
not to be forgotten and not to be covered up.
To turn into a struggle, against the practices that treat our needs as “cost”
for the profits of the few.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 8 p.m., at
Preventi Publications Art Center, Filellinon Avenue 3, Larissa.
