This Tuesday marks the seventh day of the trial for the railway accident that occurred in Santiago in 2013 Five witnesses are scheduled to testify who will offer explanations of what safety was like on the road Among them will be two former Public Works officials who, in Congress, denounced the ” fear” of others to tell the truthThe trial for the Alvia train accident, which occurred on July 24, 2013 in Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña) and in which 80 people died, resumes this Tuesday after more than a week of stop. It will be an intense day focused on the ERTMS speed control system that was disconnected in the last kilometers of the Ourense-Santiago line because it sometimes failed and caused delays in the trains. A system that, according to some experts, could have prevented the accident. Throughout this session, the seventh, the appearance of five witnesses is scheduled to offer explanations of how safe the road was. Among the most interesting statements this Tuesday are those of two former officials of the Ministry of Public Works who, during the accident investigation commission in Congress, hinted that in the Spanish railway sector there was “afraid” to speak about the causes of the accident for fear of retaliation. These are Jorge Iglesias and Jaime Tamarit. The latter is the former director of the railway interoperability laboratory of the Center for Studies and Experimentation of Public Works of the Ministry of Development (CEDSX) and one of the leading European experts in ERTMS. Tamarit assured in the investigative commission that took place in the Congress of Deputies that the accident would not have occurred if this security system had been connected on board the train in accident. Jaime Tamarit, during his appearance in the Congress of Deputies. EUROPA PRESSJorge Iglesias, for his part, was director of technical coordination in the High-Speed Network Operations and Engineering Department during the commissioning of the line. He was, specifically, the coordinator of the group in charge of drawing up the engineering rules for ERTMS level 1 and 2 and the technical coordinator for the commissioning of the line. Iglesias came to criticize in writing that Adif argued that its so-called engineering rules prevented the ERTMS from being installed up to the Angrois curve itself, when he was the author of those rules. According to him, nothing prevented the ERTMS from being installed on the curve where the train derailed. A worker from the UTE blamed by CortabitarteThis Tuesday a worker from the companies Dimetronics (Siemens) and Thales, which made up the Temporary Union of Companies (UTE) provider of the ERTMS security system. Andrés Cortabitarte, accused together with the driver of the tragedy, pointed out in his interrogation that it was this UTE that had the competence to analyze the risks that existed on the road, discharging himself from all that responsibility. Also scheduled for this day is the statement by the spokesperson for the train drivers’ union and by an employee of Bombardier, the company responsible for the design and installation of the ERTMS on board the train. A disconnection that was carried out upon request by the head of Renfe Security and that Cortabitarte authorized as the head of Adif Security. On Thursday, November 10, a single statementFor Thursday, the statement of the ADIF General Director of Operations and Engineering at the time the line was put into service and the accident occurred is scheduled for Thursday. Tuesday’s will be the seventh day of a trial in which National Police agents who intervened in the tragedy, the train inspector, a security agent who was on board, several Angrois residents and the chief have already testified as witnesses. of train drivers from Ourense, who warned of the risk of the curve to a superior 19 before the accident. The train driver, Francisco José Garzón; and the former Director of Adif Security, Andrés Cortabitarte, testified in the first week of the trial. They are the only two charged in the accident.