Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has urged Supreme Court Prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos to give priority to the investigation of cases relating to the tragic rail accident in Tempi and assign them to the highest level of examining magistrate possible, in accordance with his own judgement.

In a letter released on Monday, Mitsotakis also noted that justice's assessment of criminal liability for systemic errors - including delays in upgrading the infrastructure to install new technologies - should proceed independently from the work of the expert committee set up for this purpose, noting that the conclusions of the committee "will obviously be shared with the prosecuting authorities conducting the investigation and form part of the case file."