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Three people arrested over Italian cable car disaster: ANSA
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A crashed cable car is seen after it collapsed in Stresa, near Lake Maggiore, Italy May 23, 2021.
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ROME — Three people were arrested early on Wednesday in an investigation into a cable car disaster in northern Italy that killed 14 people, including two children, Italian newswire ANSA reported, citing prosecutors.
On Sunday the gondola on a cable way connecting the town of Stresa, on the shore of Lake Maggiore, to the nearby Mottarone mountain, plunged to the ground, killing all aboard apart from a five-year-old Israeli boy.
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A crashed cable car is seen after it collapsed in Stresa, near Lake Maggiore, Italy May 23, 2021.
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ROME — Three people were arrested early on Wednesday in an investigation into a cable car disaster in northern Italy that killed 14 people, including two children, Italian newswire ANSA reported, citing prosecutors.
On Sunday the gondola on a cable way connecting the town of Stresa, on the shore of Lake Maggiore, to the nearby Mottarone mountain, plunged to the ground, killing all aboard apart from a five-year-old Israeli boy.
Three people arrested over Italian cable car disaster: ANSA
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Italian judge releases three held in jail over cable car disaster, one under house arrest
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Emergency workers surround the wreckage of a cable car that fell from the Stresa-Alpine-Mottarone line in Stresa, Italy, Sunday, May 23, 2021.
Emergency workers surround the wreckage of a cable car that fell from the Stresa-Alpine-Mottarone line in Stresa, Italy, Sunday, May 23, 2021. PHOTO BY ITALIAN STATE POLICE / HANDOUT /Getty Images
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MILAN — An Italian judge ruled late on Saturday that three men detained over a cable car crash that killed 14 people in northern Italy could leave prison, with one of them being placed under house arrest.
In the crash a week ago, the gondola on a cable way connecting the Lake Maggiore resort town of Stresa to a nearby mountain plunged to the ground, killing all aboard apart from a five-year-old Israeli boy who remains in hospital.
Police arrested the three men on Wednesday after prosecutors in the city of Verbania opened an investigation into suspected involuntary manslaughter and negligence.
Judge Donatella Banci Buonamici ruled on Saturday there were no grounds for keeping them in jail since they could not run away and there was no risk of evidence being tampered with.
Prosecutors have alleged the three men – the owner of the cable-car company, an employee and an engineer who dealt with maintenance – were aware of the lift’s technical problems. The prosecutors said in a legal filing the three had deliberately placed fork-shaped clamps on the emergency brakes to avoid them being constantly activated.
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“I’m aware of the mistake I made leaving the clamps on,” Gabriele Tadini told prosecutors, according to the official transcript of his interview quoted by Sunday’s Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Tadini was in charge of putting the lift in motion, which he did on May 23 just a few hours before the crash.
Tadini has been placed under house arrest. His lawyer, Marcello Perillo, told Reuters he had not requested Tadini’s release after his admission.
“There is no denying the issue of the clasps, for that he will have to face consequences,” Perillo said, adding it was yet to be established to which extent the other two had been informed of Tadini’s actions.
“There is no proof at present they were also responsible. They are people who should have known, but it’s not clear if they did.”
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Verbania Chief Prosecutor Olimpia Bossi told reporters the judge had decided there was no sufficient proof Luigi Nerini, owner of the company operating the lift, and Enrico Perocchio, the engineer who was in charge of maintenance and safety, were aware of the situation.
“In any case the investigation continues, we still don’t know why the cable broke in the first place,” Bossi said.
Leaving Verbania prison on Saturday night, Perocchio told reporters that he had no idea that the brakes that should have prevented the gondola from crashing when the cable gave way had been blocked.
“I’ve got 21 years of experience with lifts that use cables, I know that’s something you don’t ever, ever do,” Perocchio said.
Nerini’s lawyer, Pasquale Pantano, told reporters on Saturday night the release was welcome news but the main thing was to find out who was responsible for the disaster.
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Emergency workers surround the wreckage of a cable car that fell from the Stresa-Alpine-Mottarone line in Stresa, Italy, Sunday, May 23, 2021.
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MILAN — An Italian judge ruled late on Saturday that three men detained over a cable car crash that killed 14 people in northern Italy could leave prison, with one of them being placed under house arrest.
In the crash a week ago, the gondola on a cable way connecting the Lake Maggiore resort town of Stresa to a nearby mountain plunged to the ground, killing all aboard apart from a five-year-old Israeli boy who remains in hospital.
Police arrested the three men on Wednesday after prosecutors in the city of Verbania opened an investigation into suspected involuntary manslaughter and negligence.
Judge Donatella Banci Buonamici ruled on Saturday there were no grounds for keeping them in jail since they could not run away and there was no risk of evidence being tampered with.
Prosecutors have alleged the three men – the owner of the cable-car company, an employee and an engineer who dealt with maintenance – were aware of the lift’s technical problems. The prosecutors said in a legal filing the three had deliberately placed fork-shaped clamps on the emergency brakes to avoid them being constantly activated.
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“I’m aware of the mistake I made leaving the clamps on,” Gabriele Tadini told prosecutors, according to the official transcript of his interview quoted by Sunday’s Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Tadini was in charge of putting the lift in motion, which he did on May 23 just a few hours before the crash.
Tadini has been placed under house arrest. His lawyer, Marcello Perillo, told Reuters he had not requested Tadini’s release after his admission.
“There is no denying the issue of the clasps, for that he will have to face consequences,” Perillo said, adding it was yet to be established to which extent the other two had been informed of Tadini’s actions.
“There is no proof at present they were also responsible. They are people who should have known, but it’s not clear if they did.”
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Verbania Chief Prosecutor Olimpia Bossi told reporters the judge had decided there was no sufficient proof Luigi Nerini, owner of the company operating the lift, and Enrico Perocchio, the engineer who was in charge of maintenance and safety, were aware of the situation.
“In any case the investigation continues, we still don’t know why the cable broke in the first place,” Bossi said.
Leaving Verbania prison on Saturday night, Perocchio told reporters that he had no idea that the brakes that should have prevented the gondola from crashing when the cable gave way had been blocked.
“I’ve got 21 years of experience with lifts that use cables, I know that’s something you don’t ever, ever do,” Perocchio said.
Nerini’s lawyer, Pasquale Pantano, told reporters on Saturday night the release was welcome news but the main thing was to find out who was responsible for the disaster.
Italian judge releases three held in jail over cable car disaster, one under house arrest
MILAN — An Italian judge ruled late on Saturday that three men detained over a cable car crash that killed 14 people in northern Italy could leave prison, with…
I remember going on a cable car at Alton Towers theme park in, I think, 1997 in Staffordshire. I was with my mate Neil (who committed suicide around ten years ago) and we were going over some woods when all of a sudden it just stopped. We were just there dangling over the trees for quite a while. I was panicking a bit but Neil loved it. He was trying to rock it. Eventually it started moving again. It was a school trip. That was also the day I queued up for about an hour with Neil and other kids from school to go on the then new Nemesis rollercoaster and when we got to the front of the queue and about to go on it I chickened out. But they went on it.
