The investigating judge Donatella Banci Bonamici summoned the lawyers of the three arrested for the crash of the cable car to the Verbania prison Mottarone, which claimed 14 lives. The investigating judge communicated his decisions to them. The prosecutor Olimpia Bossi and the substitute Laura Carrera also arrived in the prison. In the previous hours, the three suspects were further heard for questioning, during which the rebound of responsibilities began. The manager of the Mottarone cable car Luigi Nerini and the operating director Enrico Perocchio have left the Verbania prison and are free. Go to the House arrest the head of service Gabriele Tadini who admitted to having tampered with the safety braking system.
The investigating judge today listened to the manager Luigi Nerini, the head of service Gabriele Tadini and the operating manager Enrico Perocchio. Each interrogation lasted almost two hours, an entire day spent by Dr. Banci Bonamici to validate the arrest. The lawyer Marcello Perillo, lawyer of the head of service Tadini, reported that his client confirmed what had already been said in the barracks by the carabinieri. Then he admitted that he had “repeatedly” used the forks to lock the emergency brake when there were suspicious sounds. On the other hand, the version provided by the manager Luigi Nerini, who, according to what was declared by his lawyer, would have denied before the investigating judge that he knew that he was aware of this practice. “Please stop saying he saved on security. The fact is that by law, those who deal with passenger safety are the head of service and the operating manager and not the manager.“said his lawyer Pasquale Pantano.
However, even the third questioned, Enrico Perocchio, denied being aware of the forks inserted to block the emergency brakes of the Mottarone cable car. The lawyer Andrea Da Prato reported. Perocchio would have known about it at 12.09 on Sunday 23 May, when he received the call from Gabriele Tadini. This Perocchio wanted to tell the prosecutor last Tuesday through Pec before being summoned.
The only certainty at the moment is that Gabriele Tadini was aware of the forks inserted, but who did the order not to remove them come from? It seems that Tadini never said he had received a order from above precise. “Everyone knew“, he would have said. The defenses of Perocchio and Nerini insist on this. After listening to the versions of the three, who are currently locked up in the Verbania prison, the investigating judge took a few hours to decide on the arrest and in the evening he summoned the three legal defenders to communicate his decision to them. Gabriele Tadini seems to be upset, according to the statements of his lawyer: “He took refuge in the wedding ring. He will always have those victims on his conscience“.
For Lugi Nerini and Enrico Perocchio there are no serious indications necessary for a precautionary measure in prison. Nerini immediately commented: “Happy, now we have to find the responsible ones”.
The words of the prosecutor
“Against Nerini and Perocchio the judge held the insufficient evidence considering Tadini’s words not credible. “Thus the chief prosecutor of Verbania Olimpia Bossi comments on the judge’s decision regarding the suspects in the Mottarone tragedy.