Clashes broke out in Athens on Sunday between police and a group of protesters over the train accident in Greece earlier this week that killed at least 57 people.
Some 7,500 people, according to police, showed their anger in front of Parliament in Athens after the rail disaster which is blamed on human error and negligence on the rail network.
The protesters, notably carrying "Down with murderous governments" banners, responded to the call of students, railway workers and public sector employees as trains and subways are on strike across the country.
In Parliament, hundreds of black balloons were launched into the sky in memory of the victims of the head-on collision between a passenger train from Athens to Thessaloniki in the north and a freight convoy on Tuesday night.
"We feel immense anger," Michalis Hasiotis, president of the train union that joined the demonstration, told AFP. "Greed, the lack of measures taken for the protection of passengers has led to the worst railway tragedy in our country."
Previously, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had apologized to the families of the victims in a solemn statement.
The dilapidated state of the railway network, various problems in the signaling and safety system on the railways have been pointed out, since the station manager of Larissa, the nearest town to the accident, has admitted responsibility.
"Nothing is going well in this country, hospitals are dying, schools are closing, forests are burning... Who are they kidding?" Nikos Tsikalakis, president of a railway union.
Not far from the protest, the prime minister took part in a religious service in Athens' Orthodox cathedral, as churches across the country planned to pay tribute to the victims of what authorities described as "a national tragedy."
On Friday, angry protesters chanted "murderers" outside the Hellenic Train headquarters in the capital, writing the word in red letters on the building's facade.
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