There will be no trial for the subway accident in which 43 people died and another 47 were injured on July 3, 2006 in Valencia, but guilty and punished. The Prosecutor's Office, the eight defendants and the private prosecution exerted by the victims have reached an agreement in the last hours to avoid the trial , which started next Monday in Valencia. According to The Provinces and has been able to confirm El Mundo, the agreement includes that four of the defendants, including the then FGV manager, Marisa Gracia , are exonerated because the accusation is withdrawn and four others would accept sentences of 22 months in prison.
The agreement has been negotiating for weeks and, despite some reluctance, all parties were satisfied to try to avoid a judicial process that was expected to be long and could end without guilty, given the previous precedents of filing the case in the investigation phase in Several occasions
The trial was to sit on the bench 14 years later who could have had any responsibility in the accident of the convoy of Line 1 of Metrovalencia upon arrival at Jesus station. Marisa Gracia, the former head of Workshops, Luis Miguel Domingo, the director of operations, Manuel Sansano, the author of the safety and circulation audits, Juan José Gimeno, the head of Line 1, Sebastián Argente, the technical directors and exploitation, Francisco García and Vicente Contreras, and the director of studies and projects, Francisco Orts. They all faced a seven-year prison sentence request .
The Victims Association was informed of the negotiations for the agreement but, as El Mundo has learned, it still did not know that the pact had been finalized, whose announcement was scheduled for next Monday at the first hearing.
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