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20 February 2020New investigators in the investigation into the derailment of the train near Lodi in which two train drivers died on 6 February and 31 people were injured traveling on the Frecciarossa that left Milan and headed for Salerno. There are 11 new members of the Lodi prosecutor's office - 6 employees of Alstom Ferroviaria and 5 of RFI - which investigates the culpable railway disaster, manslaughter and multiple injuries. This is learned from sources close to the investigation.

"As part of the investigation, we have 11 other suspects," confirmed the public prosecutor of the Republic of Lodi in reference to the Frecciarossa 1000 accident. "The suspects are partly employees of the company that manages the railway network and partly of the one that turns out to have produced the piece that was apparently defective "explained the Prosecutor of the Republic Domenico Chiaro. The new suspects are actually 12, and the Alstom company is now in the register of suspects and not only the CEO, or the company that produced the actuator number 5, that would have derailed the convoy.

The number of suspects thus rises to 18 and 2 companies, after the 5 Rfi maintenance workers, the CEO of Alstom Ferroviaria Michele Viale and the Rfi company for the hypothesis of administrative liability.

Removal of wagons completed
Meanwhile, the removal of the Frecciarossa wagons derailed at Ospedaletto Lodigiano ended early. "We are a couple of days early. In four days we removed all the carriages that were on the rails," Andrea Piccioni, head of the construction site, commented to the microphones of the Tgr Rai of Lombardy. Meanwhile, the workers also recovered the last pieces of the convoy that flew away and fell around, in the fields, in Cascina Griona. But at work these days, in addition to the law enforcement officers who take turns patrolling the area 24 hours a day, there are also technicians from RFI and companies specialized in restoring high speed on at least one of the two tracks, with interventions on the ground and on the supply area line. Traffic, as the Trenitalia website also informs, is still slowing down due to the judicial authorities' investigations. Trains travel the conventional line between Milan and Piacenza "with a longer travel time of 40 minutes". Activated the toll-free number 800892021.