The massacre of the cable car of Stresa-Mottarone it could have been avoided. Because from the day of the reopening after the stop for the covid on April 26, it was known that the system had problems: the brakes were released, blocking the cabins, thus wasting money and running time for the company. So the brake block decision was conscious. And it would be shared with the cable car manager, Luigi Nerini, and with the operating manager Enrico Perocchio, engineer, the most senior management company. There Prosecutor of Verbania arrested three people on charges of multiple manslaughter, very serious injuries and failure to take precautions. “They trusted in good luck”, the prosecutor said Olimpia Bossi.
Perocchio, who has a double role being also an employee of Leitner, the company that supplied the cabins and maintains the plant, reports the Corriere della Sera, denied any responsibility. “The engineer has never authorized the use of the cableway with the forks inserted and also that he was aware of this practice, which he defines as suicidal”, explained his lawyer Andrea Da Prato, his defender. Perocchio then recalled the phone call with which he was warned by Tadini of the disaster. “It was 12.09 on Sunday. He told me ‘I have a rope on the ground, one in the embankment, the cabin has the forks up’. “In the embankment there are also fourteen bodies.
This means relying on “good luck”. “I’ll tell you in camera caritatis – he confides to Courier service a Leitner expert who wants to remain anonymous -. They had to close the plant and take the people up with the buses until the malfunction problems were resolved. “The company in charge of maintenance had already intervened twice, in vain. The last one last May 3. So far, the trend of investigation into the ultimate cause of the disaster. Then there is the question of the breaking of the hauling rope. The investigation will have to shed light on checks and maintenance. And answer a question: why did the iron cable break?
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