Why did the cable car fall in Italy? Declared those arrested by the tragedy

VERBANIA, Italy. Different and contradictory versions were handed over to the investigating judge of Verbania, Donatella Banci Buonamici, who must rule, after nearly eight hours of questioning, on the request for validation of the arrest and custody of Gabriele Tadini, technical manager, and Two other suspects for the fall of the cable car on Mount Mottarone in northern Italy, what caused the 14 tourists died and a 5-year-old boy was injured -the only survivor- last weekend.

“I have put the brake shoe on myself and have done it on other occasions, because in the last 40 days there has been this problem with the brake system“Reiterated Tadini, who already on Tuesday, before prosecutors Olimpia Bossi and Laura Carrera explained that he had decided, also on May 23, of the fall, to keep the forks in the jaws to deactivate the emergency brake. And he did it, almost as “usual” last month, to avoid blockages in the cable car due to anomalies recorded in the device.

However, when the tow rope crashed, for reasons yet to be clarified, at this time, cabin number 3 was not hooked by the brake of the carrier cable and flew away.

“I am not a criminal, I never would have let people get along if I thought the rope could breakSaid the technician, almost crying, and admitted that he will carry “this weight forever”.

The accused was assisted by lawyer Marcello Perillo, who requested house arrest for him.

The others involved in the cause of the Piedmontese tragedy are the director of transport at Mottarone station, Luigi Nerini, and the head of operations, Enrico Perocchio. All are in prison for willful omission compounded by the disaster, manslaughter for the death of the 14 passengers and negligent injuries due to the injuries of the 5-year-old boy.

Tadini said his decisions were “shared” with Nerini and Perocchio. But the first to deny the whole line before the judge was Perocchio himself – defended by lawyer Andrea Da Prato -, an employee of Leitner, who is in charge of the interview: “I did not know the use of forks, I was not aware of it”, he asserted. “I would never get on a cable car with handles, using bobby pins was a bad decision for Tadini“. For his lawyer, there is even the testimony of an external technician of the factory who disavows him, because he denies that the head of the service ever denounced “the engineer Perocchio” for the “decision”.

As for Nerini, defended by lawyer Pasquale Pantano, the responsibility for what happened has shifted to the other two. “Safety is not the business of the trader”, was his defensive line. “According to the law, it was Tadini and Perocchio who had to take care of it,” he added, “I have to take care of the business of the company and I had no interest in not fixing the cable car“He insisted.” Suffice it to say that security has been spared, “the defender said.

According to the newspapers, it seems that Tadini, Also investigated for forgery, he would have produced two reports, on May 23 and the day before, showing “positive” results of the checks., when, on the other hand, he had been hearing “noises” for a long time.

On the one hand, there was a brake system that did not work and was stuck with tourists on board “regardless of safety”, according to what prosecutors wrote, and on the other hand, a cable pull probably already weak that it couldn’t support longer at the so-called “fused head” point, where the cable hooks up to the cab carriage. The connection between these facts is one of the fundamental points which the investigation must clarify.

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