Under house arrest the head of service Gabriele Tadini, the only one to have confessed to having inserted the forks and inhibited the emergency braking system, the other two, the manager of the plant Luigi Nerini and the operating director Enrico Perocchio, are free. The investigating judge Donatella Banci Buonamici dismantled the theses of the Verbania prosecutor’s office and ordered the release of those arrested for the massacre at the Mottarone cable car. The decision not to validate the detention decided by the prosecutor last Wednesday came on the evening of Saturday 29 May: for the magistrate, there are not enough elements to keep the three currently under investigation in prison for complicity in multiple manslaughter and very serious culpable injuries, forgery in public deed and malicious removal of the security system.
Release the three suspects
Tadini was released from prison shortly after midnight, escorted by his lawyer Marcello Perillo. «I am professionally satisfied – said his lawyer -. It would have been offensive to ask for freedom. ‘ According to the investigating judge, the measure was also decided on the basis of age and his “stable family context” for the head of service. After about an hour, Enrico Perocchio also left the Verbania prison: «I left immediately to go to the scene of the accident, the phone calls did not immediately tell me that it was a massacre. I left immediately in the hope that it was an overlap, “he explained to reporters, returning to the events of May 23, the day of the massacre that killed 14 people.
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Perocchio: at the moment I felt like a boulder
“Honestly – he added – I felt dying, I thought it is not possible, it is not possible, at the moment I felt like a boulder”, he then replied to the reporters who asked what he had thought once he learned of the accusations. Among the things that struck him most, Perocchio continued, is “the fact that it was said that I said I was the one who endorsed something I never endorsed”. His lawyer, Andrea Da Prato, insisted that Perocchio was unaware of the use of “forks”.
Nerini: I’m very sorry
The last to leave the prison is the administrator of Ferrovie del Mottarone srl, Luigi Nerini. “I’m so sorry,” are his only words as, escorted by lawyers, he went to his car. The three remain under investigation. “The judge felt that the evidence against them was not sufficient – said the prosecutor Olimpia Bossi after leaving the prison, after reading the device by the investigating judge in front of the three arrested on the night of Tuesday 25 May -. The suspects remain the same ».
The reasons of the investigating judge
According to the investigating judge, the arrest for the three “was carried out outside the cases provided for by law” and therefore cannot be validated. The reason given by the prosecutor was that of the danger of escape, which, however, according to the investigating judge does not exist. The reasons for not validating the arrest are very hard: «The reference to the“ media hype ”is suggestive but absolutely not conferring», explained the judge who defined this detail as «totally irrelevant» regarding the danger of escape for those arrested. In detail, the investigating judge also stressed that it is not clear why Perocchio or Nerini should have “endorsed” the decision to insert the forks as done, and admitted, by Tadini. The statements made by the witnesses, in fact, would accuse Tadini but would say nothing, according to the investigating judge, about the “correctness” of the other two.