Mottarone cable car, pm: “Evidence incident affects investigations”

The evidentiary incident on the remains of the Mottarone cable car, which crashed on Sunday 23 May causing the death of 14 people, “would irreversibly jeopardize the conduct of the investigation” according to the prosecutor. The decision of the investigating magistrate of Verbania Donatella Banci Buonamici to grant it or reject it is expected in a short time. The request, forwarded by the defender of Gabriele Tadini, the head of the service under house arrest, underlines the need to protect the remains from the elements but also from any malicious persons. For the chief prosecutor Olimpia Bossi and the prosecutor Laura Carrera, however, the request “only 11 days” from the disaster appears “premature” not only because the cabin and the hauling rope were covered “by tarpaulins” as requested by the prosecutor’s consultant , but also because the operations to remove the cabin are underestimated, for which today we proceed with an inspection with the fire brigade. If the investigating judge conceded and decided for the immediate carrying out of the probative accident on the rope and on the braking system as requested by Tadini’s defense, it would “irreversibly jeopardize the carrying out of the investigation activities”, warns the prosecutor asking for more in-depth investigations. on the plant also to understand if Tadini’s decision to block the forks had an impact on the breaking of the hauling cable. The power of attorney asks to declare the request inadmissible (it was not notified to the operating manager Enrico Perocchio but only to his lawyer), to reject it as unfounded or alternatively to arrange it in “at least two months” to identify all the suspects who must participate in the investigations For the prosecutor who, 48 hours after the tragedy, issued three arrests in prison, the manager Luigi Nerini and the operating director Enrico Perocchio are now only under investigation, the request for an evidentiary incident is also premature because “the complexity of the management profiles , maintenance and safety “of the cableway plant requires the necessary and exhaustive acquisition of all documentation” from the companies in charge of maintenance and Ustif in charge of controls, “the assumption of further information and declarations” to identify “in a complete way , but at the same time cautious, precise and not generically extensive, all and exclusively subjects to approx of which the existence of circumstantial elements of co-responsibility may emerge “.