Approximately 300,000 people gathered in downtown Athens on Friday to mark the second anniversary of the train disaster that killed 57 people, according to Greek police. Protesters threw Molotov cocktails onto the parliament grounds and set a sentry box on fire.

Following hours of peaceful rallies in the Greek capital to mark two years since the Tempe rail disaster, youths with hammers smashed paving stones, throwing the rubble and makeshift firebombs at police, who responded with tear gas.

Demonstrations are planned throughout the island on Friday to mark the two years since the Greek train tragedy in Tempi, near Larissa, in which 57 people died. Two Cypriot students, 24-year-old Anastasia Adamidou and 23-year-old Kyprianos Papaioannou were among the victims of the crash.

A protest over the Greek government’s response to the nation’s largest ever train crash turned violent on Friday as Scores of youths hurled rocks and gasoline bombs at police.

Riot police fired volleys of tear gas, stun grenades and water canon at protesters hurling gasoline bombs and smashed-up paving stones in Athens during mass demonstrations Friday to mark the second anniversary of a devastating train crash that has become a symbol of institutional failure in Greece.

Two years ago this week, a train crash near the Greek village of Tempi killed 57 people and injured 81, making it the second deadliest collision in Europe this century. To mark the second anniversary,

Protesters hurled petrol bombs and set fire to trash cans in Athens on Friday (February 28, 2025) as hundreds of thousands of Greeks went on strike and took to the streets in nationwide demonstrations on the second anniversary of the country's deadliest train crash.