a technician had modified the brake of the cable car that fell on May 23

Although prosecutors asked the judge to keep them in detention, Buonamici ordered the release of Nerini and Perocchio and allowed them to Coach Gabriele Tadini is under house arrest. The three, who are still under investigation, were released from Verbania prison accompanied by their lawyers.

Fourteen people were killed when the guide wire of the funicular broke and fell into the void. The cable car, overlooking Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, it completely left the line and crashed into the mountainous ground. He rolled several meters down the slope, bouncing off the rocks with 15 people inside until he collided violently with two tall pine trees., where he stopped totally broken. The only survivor, Eitan Biran, 5, remains in hospital but aware. Her parents, younger brother and great-grandparents died in the disaster.

The Italian region of Piedmont saved a minute of silence at noon and the flags flew at half mast to remember the tragedy a week ago, which took place on May 23.

Tadini admitted during questioning that he left a fork-shaped bracket on the cable car’s emergency brake to deactivate it, because it was only activated when the vehicle was in service. Speaking to reporters outside Verbania prison, his lawyer Marcello Perillo said that Tadini would never have left the booth in place if he thought it could endanger the passengers.

The Ansa agency emphasizes that other employees of the company that operates the cable car they could be included in the register of suspects. “We will assess in what terms they knew the use of the forks” that Tadini usedsaid the prosecutor of Verbania Olimpia Bossi, and “we will assess whether they participated consciously or whether they limited themselves to following directions from above.”

Research continues to understand how the cable broke. Prosecutor Bossi said she did not see the judge’s decision to release the three detainees “as a defeat”, “because most importantly, she shared the legal classification of the facts”.

Cable car employees were aware of foreman Gabriele Tadini’s practice of leaving forks inserted to lock the brake, but maybe they could have refused to follow her. This is what emerges from the judge’s opinion, who ordered Tadini’s house arrest. The judge mentions in her letter an operator who was on duty on May 23, the day of the accident. Gabriele Tadini was the foreman and head of the cable car service. The judge released yesterday Luigi Nerini, director and owner of the plant, and Enrico Perocchio, technical director of the service. “The complete lack of evidence against Nerini and Perocchio other than mere guesses is evident,” Judge Banci Buonamici wrote.