A judge in Italy indicated on Sunday that a service technician who purposefully disabled a cable car's emergency brake was the one responsible for the crash that resulted in 14 deaths.Three suspects were released from prison Sunday following Judge Donatella Banci Buonamici's ruling, The Associated Press reports. Buonamici ruled that there was not enough evidence to suggest cable car company owner Luigi Nerini and maintenance chief Enrico.
The three suspects in Italy’s cable car disaster that killed 14 people were allowed to leave prison Sunday after a judge indicated that most of the blame fell on a service technician who intentionally disabled the car's emergency brake because it kept locking spontaneously.
Technician To Blame For Deadly Cable Car Crash In Italy, Judge Says
Fourteen people were killed when the lead cable of the Mottarone funicular overlooking Lake Maggiore in northern Italy snapped.
Nicole Winfield
ROME (AP) The three suspects in Italy’s cable car disaster that killed 14 people were allowed to leave prison Sunday after a judge indicated that most of the blame fell on just one of them: a service technician who intentionally disabled the car’s emergency brake because it kept locking spontaneously.
Judge Donatella Banci Buonamici said there wasn’t sufficient evidence suggesting the owner of the Mottarone cable car company, Luigi Nerini, or the maintenance chief, Enrico Perocchio, knew that the technician had deactivated the brake on several occasions even before the May 23 disaster.
The three suspects in Italy’s cable car disaster that killed 14 people were allowed to leave prison Sunday after a judge indicated that most of the blame fell.
The three suspects in Italy s cable car disaster that killed 14 people were allowed to leave prison Sunday after a judge indicated that for now blame fell on just one: a service technician who intentionally disabled the car s emergency brake because it kept locking spontaneously.