Plant employees summoned by the carabinieri – Before the defender in the police station, where the suspect was questioned together with other employees of the company, including the owner Luigi Nerini, the lawyer Cania Di Milio, former mayor of Stresa, presented himself. However, the lawyer had to refuse the assignment because the Municipality could be a party to the dispute.
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What is the fork
The fork it is usually used for the test ride – when the cabins are empty – to avoid an operator having to move, in case the brake is triggered (even for a momentary blackout or a hydraulic system failure), to reach the blocked cab along the way. If the fork is mounted, the cabin can go down, if it is not there it is necessary to manually unlock it. With passengers on board the lock must be released, in order for the brake to be able to function.
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Human error or tampering?The prosecutor Olimpia Bossi who investigates the story tells a detail that could become fundamental: “The day before the cable car was blocked and there was an intervention to put it back into operation. Whether this is connected or not we still do not know”. When the emergency brakes are activated, they must necessarily be unlocked by hand. Whether the fork was perhaps left inserted to avoid the block is all to be determined but the prosecutor says that this hypothesis is under consideration. This is why among the hypotheses there is also that of human error.
According to the newspaper “La Stampa”, one person claims that the fork was not removed by mistake on Sunday morning. A boy, according to the Turin newspaper, reported a breakdown on Saturday afternoon, just before the closing time of the cable car. Detail confirmed by the prosecutor Olimpia Bossi.
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Revisions – The Leitner group of Vipiteno (Bolzano), which deals with most of the periodic reviews on the Stresa Mottarone cable car, has made it known that the last checks were carried out at the end of March and that in December a simulation of the breaking of the hauling cable was carried out with consequent activation of the emergency brake.
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