The victims of the Alvia train: "The Executive power reaches into Justice and people have to know"

• Galicia Nine years of pain and anger for the victims of the Alvia train accident

• Accident The victims of the Alvia

July 24 should be "a day of remembrance and memory for those who are no longer here" because they lost their lives in the derailment of the Alvia train outside

in 2013, but, on its ninth anniversary, the victims and relatives lament that "we have to continue concentrating and vindicating ourselves".

This Sunday they have returned to the station where the damaged train never arrived and have walked several streets of the Galician capital in demonstration to make their demands public, on which this year the trial on the case is planned to begin in October.

president of the majority association of those affected, the

,

had his eye on the Administration of Justice.

end they put their hand in Justice and people have to know it".

Domínguez insists that the platform believes in justice and in the independence of Judge

head of the Criminal Court number 2 of Santiago, who will judge the case from October 5, but the last nine years have become disbelievers of the system.

He questions the "not accidental delay" in the judicial procedure for which "different State institutions are responsible" and which has caused Justice to be less Justice, because it is slow, because "there are family members, fathers, mothers and siblings who were here other years and who have already passed away" without knowing the truth of what happened.

He also points out that the General Council of the Judiciary ignored his request not to change the first investigating judge,

who left the case in full instruction due to a change of court;

to the "inaction" of the first prosecutor in the case,

;

and various judicial orders in which the court reproached "concealment and delay" in the delivery of documents by the

and

His criticisms are directed at practically all the political parties, especially the PP and PSOE.

In fact, for years, it has been common for them to include photos of former Development Ministers

(PP) and

(PSOE) in their protests.

To Ana Pastor because she "promised an independent investigation and collaboration with the justice system in parliament", but the court criticized that lack of collaboration with the Justice of the organizations that depended on her.

To Blanco because during his time at the helm he publicized that the new high-speed line had the security systems that would have prevented the tragedy and "changed the original project due to haste, eliminating the security system in the most dangerous section."

Criticism of the Galician president

Alfonso Rueda, president of the

and former head of the Justice portfolio in the community, was also the target of his criticism this year.

They reproach him for "imposing the experts" who made reports on the accident, "officials who are not objective and who had no experience in the railway and who plagiarized the CIAF report", the

In the Plaza del Obradoiro, which this Sunday was a hive of tourists and pilgrims as it was the eve of Galicia's big day,

who lost his brother in the accident, denounced that the Galician Government, as it did in the first anniversary, changed the delivery date of the Galician Gold Medals from July 25 to 24 "making it coincide with the anniversary to divert attention from its concealment strategy".

Everything has derailed in this case

"Nine years later, the Government, Justice, politicians and institutions are derailed," they insist, convinced that "it says very little about our institutions" that an independent technical investigation into the accident has not yet been launched after the European Union questioned the lack of independence of the report prepared by the CIAF, which concluded that the entire responsibility rested with the train driver,

In the trial he will be accused together with the former director of Security in the Circulation of Adif,

That investigation has not been done "neither by the governments of the PP, nor of the PSOE, nor that of the latter in coalition with Podemos despite the initial support and subsequent silence" and they continue to demand that it be done, now also with the support of the

in a ruling from last June.

Despite these criticisms of United We Can, this Sunday, two representatives of the

including its head of Organization,

accompanied them in their demonstration.

The other party that, until now, has been at all its acts, the BNG, with a delegation headed by MEP Ana Miranda and the only deputy of the formation in Congress,

Rego recalled that the Investigation Commission opened in Congress four years ago was left unfinished when early elections were called in 2019 and in September an initiative by his group managed to get it approved to resume it, although it is now on hold pending the case. be resolved in court.

Ana Miranda,

who has accompanied the victims in their claims before the

in recent years, questioned that "it is not normal that we have spent nine years with this case open without any kind of political, judicial responsibility or legislative changes" and He recalled that the

opened an infringement procedure in 2019 against the Spanish State for not complying with risk regulations.

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