Two years after the cable car accident on Lake Maggiore, the prosecutor’s office in northern Italy has charged six people. Among them are the operator owner, the technical manager and the operations manager. They are charged with multiple negligent homicide and grievous bodily harm due to negligence.
The cable car accident killed 14 people. The only survivor was a five-year-old child from Israel. However, it lost its parents, younger brother and both great grandparents. The child now lives with his paternal aunt.
As reported, the traction cable broke on May 23, 2021 just before the mountain station. At that point, the emergency brakes should have grabbed the suspension cable. However, according to previous investigations, these were blocked with clamps because they would have caused disruptions during ongoing operations. The gondola hurtled through the valley, jumped out of its anchorage onto a cable car support and hit the ground.
Employees of the cable car company
On Friday, the judiciary announced that criminal prosecution is now underway against six people. The owner of the cable car operator “Ferrovie del Mottarone”, the manager, the technical manager, the chairman of the board of directors of the cable car manufacturer Leitner, Anton Seeber, and two other employees of the South Tyrolean company are accused.
They are charged with multiple negligent homicides and serious bodily harm by negligence, endangering road safety, and intentionally removing or failing to take safety precautions against occupational accidents. The South Tyrolean cable car manufacturer Leitner was “surprised” on Friday It was “surprising” that the company and its management were accused of “not supervising the work of the technical manager as an official. By law, such supervision is the responsibility of the National Cable Car Authority (Ustif) “We have worked with the authorities, made all documentation public and are still convinced that we have ‘done the right thing'”.
The public prosecutor of the northern Italian city of Verbania has now completed the investigation.
Source: Krone
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