They rise to 14 under investigation for the Mottarone tragedy: the first three already registered (owner of the cable car and two technicians) by the Verbania Public Prosecutor’s Office are added the names of managers and technicians of 4 companies that have carried out maintenance over the years, starting with the Leitner of Vipiteno (Bolzano) which ends itself in the register of suspects with the Ferrovie del Mottarone which manages the plant. World leader in cableway installations, Leitner assures the “maximum willingness to collaborate” with the investigators in the “firm awareness” of having respected the rules.
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The brakes
Given that the disaster could have been avoided if the emergency brakes of the cabin had not been deactivated with the “forks”, something of which the head of the service Gabriele Tadini (the only one under house arrest), the owner Luigi Nerini and the director are accused of exercise Enrico Perocchio, the question is only one: why did the hauling rope that triggered the tragedy that killed 14 people on 23 May broke and whose responsibilities are they? The answer will come from the appraisal already arranged by the investigating judge Elena Ceriotti whose operations will begin next Thursday, but are expected to last months. Now the prosecutor Olimpia Bossi and the deputy Laura Carrera expand the range of people who may have had a role in the affair, and are entitled to participate in the evidentiary incident with their consultants, and add the attack on transport security to the initial accusations. culpable of disaster, multiple homicides, very serious injuries and removal of security systems.
The fune
40 days after the accident, the debris is still along the steep slopes of Mount Mottarone. The fused head, point where the rope that drags the cabin it is coupled to the trolley that runs along the carrying rope, it is still stuck in the trunk of a tree. No one has been able to examine it, but one hypothesis is that the breakup happened right there. Like no one has had access to the digital memories of the PCs that should contain the data of the death race and the cell phones of the suspects. Everything is under seizure with the entire cable car and everything will have to be examined by the technicians. First, however, it will be necessary to decide how and when to transfer the scrap where it can be analyzed with laboratory equipment.
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Stresa-Mottarone cable car: insights
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The maintenance
However, maintenance remains the focal point. For this reason the prosecutor is now investigating Anton Seeber, chairman of the board of directors, Martin Leitner, managing director, and Peter Rabanser, delegate for the safety of the Leitner lifts, to which the Mottarone cable cars paid 127 thousand euros a year for maintenance. Also investigated is Rino Fanetti, the Leitner employee who in November 2016 made the cast head which, as established by the law, would be redone after 5 years, therefore by next November. Leitner, who modernized the cable car in 2016, has delegated some interventions to other companies. Like the “Rsv srl” of Turin, which took care of the brake control units, the ones that, coming into operation continuously, made Tadini take the decision to put the forks, shared with Nerini and Perocchio, say the prosecutors. The owner Fabrizio Pezzolo and the technician Davide Marchetto, who intervened on the Mottarone due to brake malfunction, are under investigation. The technicians Alessandro Rossi and Davide Moschitti of Sateco srl of Turin, who checked the cast head in November 2019, and Federico Samonini, representative of the
Scf Monterosa srl of Macugnaga who made the cast heads of the other three cabins that will be compared with the one under accusation.
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