• Investigation Videos of the cable car accident in Italy: "It failed five meters from the end"

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Three people have been arrested this morning for the fall of a cabin of the cable car that connects the towns of

Stresa

and

Mottarone

, in the

Piedmont

region

, in northern

Italy

, and that caused

14 deaths

, for being aware that one of the Emergency brakes had been purposely disabled to remedy an anomaly.

After several hours of interrogation, the arrests of

Luigi Nerini

, 56 years old and owner of the company "Ferrovie del Mottarone" that manages the cable car, as well as the director and chief of operations of the cable car,

have been ordered

, accused of intentional multiple homicide , disaster due to negligence and removal of tools to prevent workplace accidents, media reported.

The

Verbania

chief prosecutor

,

Olimpia Bossi

, who is conducting the investigations, stated at the exit of the barracks where the interrogations took place that "the three detainees had been aware of the failure in the safety brake system for weeks."

From the first inspections, the braking system seemed altered, since a fork in one of the emergency brakes had been manipulated to deactivate it because it was causing problems and was causing the continuous blocking of the cable car.

Therefore, last Sunday, when the steel cable of the damaged cabin broke, the braking system did not work.

Two braking systems failed

Bossi explained that the fork that keeps the brake shoes at a distance and that should block the support cable in the event of a break had not been removed to "avoid interruptions and blockages of the cable car", since "the system had anomalies and would have required a more radical intervention, with a prolonged stoppage of the cable car activity ", so they decided not to fix it.

The investigations will continue today with technical expertise on the scene, while, at the moment, there are no more people under investigation.

The Transport Counselor of the

Piedmont

region

,

Marco Gabusi

, reconstructed the accident by explaining that there are two braking systems if the cable breaks, but they did not work, and the cabin, which was five meters from reaching the station, ended sliding at more than 100 kilometers per hour and then flying more than 54 meters crashing to the ground and rolling another ten meters.

The sole survivor responds "positively"

Meanwhile, the state of health of the five-year-old Eitan Biran, the only survivor of the accident in which his parents, brother and two of his great-grandparents died, is closely monitored, who this Tuesday began to wake up from the induced coma and respond in "positive" way, although his situation remains "critical".

If he remains stable,

Eitan

could be extubated today, according to the general director of the hospital complex in which he is admitted, Giovanni La Valle, who explained that the concern now is "complications not related to the neurological system, which is intact, but those that may arise as a consequence of polytrauma ".

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