A suspect has now given bitter repair details to the cable car accident in Italy. The surviving boy asked about his parents immediately after he woke up.
Turin – There are also many unanswered questions about the cable car accident in Italy * near Lake Maggiore. The emergency brake has apparently been manipulated – but an explanation as to why the suspension rope could break has not yet been given. A released suspect is now giving bitter details about a possible repair, while the sole survivor remains in intensive care.
Cable car accident in Italy: Two suspects free again – the judge does not believe one
Two of the three men arrested in connection with the accident have now been released. According to the Ansa news agency, the investigating judge in Verbania on Lake Maggiore released the managing director of the operating company and the operations manager from custody. The evidence that the two were responsible was not sufficient. Only the service manager has to remain in domestic detention for the time being. The judge therefore did not consider his statement to be credible enough.
“It was a very difficult six days: this accusation is devastating. Now I’m finally a little relieved. I’m going back to my family, ”one of the employees of the operating company told the Italian newspaper La Stampa after his release. He protests that he knew nothing about the brackets with which the emergency braking system of the gondola had apparently been deliberately overridden. Apparently, they wanted to ensure operation after the long Corona break, although there had been disruptions beforehand.
Gondola accident in Italy: operator gives bitter details about possible repairs
“If I had known about it, I would not have supported this decision,” said the technical director of the operating company, Enrico Perocchio, of the newspaper. He also gave bitter details, because: In his opinion, it would have been enough to stop operations for one or two days for the repair. It was a mistake to use the brackets to get around a problem that could have been solved, said Perocchio.
Even with a look at the broken rope, however, he said that all maintenance had been made and everything was in order.
A boy who survived the cable car accident in Italy asks aunt about dead parents
Meanwhile, the condition of the only survivor – a five-year-old boy – continues to improve. The children’s hospital in Turin announced on Sunday that he was able to eat light food for the first time. As a precaution, he remains in the intensive care unit – his aunt and grandmother are with him 24 hours a day.
They also have the difficult task of telling the boy about the death of his parents in the accident. When he regained consciousness, the child immediately asked the aunt why he was in the hospital and where his parents were, reports the portal ilgiornale.it . So far, the boy has apparently not been informed about the tragic fate of his family. With a view to his state of health, a team of psychologists and doctors is apparently supposed to decide when he will find out about the death of his parents.
In the accident, the boy lost his parents as well as his brother and great-grandparents. The boy apparently only survived because his parents hugged him when he fell and protected him.
On Sunday a week ago, 14 people had lost their lives when on Monte Mottarone west of Lake Maggiore in the
In the northern Italian region of Piedmont, the cable of the cable car broke and the gondola crashed downhill and shattered. According to the investigation, the emergency brake, which should have acted on the suspension cable at that moment, was deactivated with the clamps. Only the little boy survived. The judiciary wants to clarify in further investigations why the pull rope broke and who still knew about the brackets. These may actually only be used for maintenance work. (rjs / dpa) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
