The Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Enrico Giovannini, asks the organizers of the Giro d’Italia to modify the route of the third last stage of the race, which should pass through the top of Mottarone on May 28, in respect of the victims of the tragedy of the cable car . In the technical meeting held Monday in Stresa with local institutions and authorities, the Minister had agreed on the advisability of changing the route and immediately activated to contact the organizers. The Minister also asked that a moment of recollection be respected as part of the sporting event to remember the people who lost their lives in the tragic accident.
The conditions of the surviving child are stable
Meanwhile, the second night in hospital in Turin for the five-year-old child, the only survivor of the Mottarone tragedy, has passed, where 14 people including parents and brother have lost their lives. Little Eitan is hospitalized with a reserved prognosis and his conditions are defined as ‘stable’ by the doctors. He had undergone MRI on Monday, which revealed no brain and brainstem lesions. The doctors started the baby’s awakening operations.
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Analysis of surveillance videos
On the investigative front, it will take a few days to see and analyze the videos from the surveillance cameras of the Mottarone cable car, the scene of Sunday’s tragedy. The cameras, which also record the arrival and departure of the cabins and which probably also filmed the moments before the accident, are different and were seized by the Verbania prosecutor together with the entire system. The films in a continuous cycle, 24 hours a day, go backwards for seven days and are more than two. «To view them – the provincial commander of the carabinieri, Colonel Alberto Cicognani explains to Ansa – will take the necessary time. We are doing everything scrupulously ». It has not yet been ascertained, however, whether or not there is a black box, as the cable car that connects Stresa to Mottarone is not of the latest generation.
Power of attorney: the day before a block to the plant
There is also “human error among the hypotheses” being examined by the investigators, as explained by the prosecutor of Verbania Olimia Bossi. «The“ fork ”hypothesis is part of the investigations to be made. You can’t see it from the video »explained the public prosecutor, who with the prosecutor Laura Carrera investigates the Mottarone cable car accident. “The” fork “- he added – is a mechanism that is part of the cabin locking and unlocking system and whether it has been inserted or not must be ascertained”. The magistrate also reported that “the day before the accident there was a blockage of the plant, the cable car stopped and there was an intervention to put it back into operation. Whether or not this is connected with the accident we still do not know, just as we do not know if people were present inside the cable car ». In addition, the public prosecutor revealed that from the first images viewed you can see the cabin retract.
More documents soon acquired
The Public Prosecutor will also have to acquire the documents relating to the plant from all entities that may have an involvement, including the special office for transport to fixed installations Ustif. Olimpia Bossi explained this again, adding that she had already collected the documents at the Ferrovia Mottarone spa, the company that manages the plant, whose offices are now under seizure like the entire cable car. “The analysis of the papers will serve to clarify the picture and identify any subjects with respect to which to hypothesize a possible profile of responsibility – he added – in order to then carry out an appropriate preliminary activity”.