Dendias backs Ruci’s exhumation request

During a speech successful Parliament, Defense Minister Nikos Dendias expressed support for Panos Ruci’s petition to exhume his son’s assemblage to found the origin of death.

Ruci, connected hunger strike for 18 days, is seeking the exhumation of his son Denis, a victim of the Tempe railway disaster, not lone for recognition but besides to clarify the circumstances of his death.

“I will not speak arsenic a curate oregon arsenic a authorities official. We each person children. I cannot ideate however the close of a begetter to analyse thing astir the decease of his child, successful immoderate way helium deems necessary, could beryllium denied,” said Dendias.

“I don’t think anyone successful government, successful immoderate government, astatine immoderate time, could take a antithetic stance,” helium added.

Dendias expressed anticipation that Ruci’s wellness would not further deteriorate under the conditions of his hunger strike.

“Sincerely, from the bottommost of my heart, I anticipation that this man’s tragedy, who is experiencing tremendous suffering from the nonaccomplishment of his child, will not beryllium worsened by the conditions under which helium is present forced to live,” said Dendias.

Last week, judicial authorities accepted Ruci’s petition for the exhumation of his son, but lone for purposes of identification, not for an probe into the origin of death.

Ruci rejected the determination and has vowed to proceed his hunger strike.