There is a cautious optimism for the five-year-old child, the only survivor of the Stresa-Mottarone cable car massacre and hospitalized at the Regina Margherita children's hospital in Turin. It remains very serious, but yesterday afternoon's MRI showed no neurological damage to the brain or to the brainstem. An outcome that leads doctors to have more hope on the chances of recovery. "This - explained the general director of the City of Health Giovanni La Valle - authorizes us tomorrow to begin a cautious awakening". Today it will be important to see the response of the child, who is now sedated, who lost his father Amit Biran, 30 years old, a medical student who worked for the safety of the Jewish community in Milan, his mother Tal Peleg, 27 years old and little brother Tom of two.Together with them also died the great-grandparents of the child, Barbara Cohen Konisky and Itshak Cohen, grandparents of Tal, who arrived in Italy from Israel to spend a short vacation. A destroyed family, which resided in the Pavia area, but which continued to have relations with their homeland, as recalled by Guido Haspaij, president of the Jewish Community of Milan, who knew Amit well "A handsome, generous boy who does not he knew how to say no. He was always smiling. " Even the ambassador of Israel in Italy, Dror Eydar wanted to visit the child and the relatives who arrived in Italy, while the father's sister was the first to reach the Regina Margherita last night. "We have prayed together with family members for the health of the child and we have great hope that he can overcome the difficult moment",Eydar said. Accompanying the ambassador to Regina Margherita was the president of the Piedmont Region Alberto Cirio: "Today we leave this hospital with a heart full of pain but with a little more hope given the result of the resonance", added the governor. As far as we know, the child would not have suffered trauma to the face and would not give the idea of having fallen into the cabin from about fifteen meters. The hypothesis is so widespread that his father embraced him in order to protect him and make him survive the terrible impact. One last act of love. As a gesture of love is that soft toy that a mother left in the hospital for the child. With a note: "I leave you my son's puppet to play and sleep with him. I love you." Signed "Una mamma".Accompanying the ambassador to Regina Margherita was the president of the Piedmont Region Alberto Cirio: "Today we leave this hospital with a heart full of pain but with a little more hope given the result of the resonance", added the governor. As far as we know, the child would not have suffered trauma to the face and would not give the idea of having fallen into the cabin from about fifteen meters. The hypothesis is so widespread that his father embraced him in order to protect him and make him survive the terrible impact. One last act of love. As a gesture of love is that soft toy that a mother left in the hospital for the child. With a note: "I leave you my son's puppet to play and sleep with him. I love you." Signed "Una mamma".Accompanying the ambassador to Regina Margherita was the president of the Piedmont Region Alberto Cirio: "Today we leave this hospital with a heart full of pain but with a little more hope given the result of the resonance", added the governor. As far as we know, the child would not have suffered trauma to the face and would not give the idea of having fallen into the cabin from about fifteen meters. The hypothesis is so widespread that his father embraced him in order to protect him and make him survive the terrible impact. One last act of love. As a gesture of love is that soft toy that a mother left in the hospital for the child. With a note: "I leave you my son's puppet to play and sleep with him. I love you." Signed "Una mamma".
Cable cut and failure of the safety braking system. These are the two key points of the investigation opened yesterday by the Verbania Public Prosecutor's Office to ascertain the causes of the tragedy of the Mottarone cable car in which 14 people lost their lives on Sunday, including two children of two and five years. The only survivor is the latter's little brother, now hospitalized in very serious conditions at the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin.
The day after the terrible accident that destroyed five families, the public prosecutor Olimpia Bossi, who will be joined by the prosecutor Laura Carrera, formally opened a file for multiple manslaughter, culpable disaster with endangering transport safety and very serious injuries . And in the next few hours, as soon as the framework of the companies and entities involved in the management and maintenance of the plant is precise, we will proceed with the registration in the register of suspects. An act due as the first step of a technical investigation, necessary to then proceed with a consultancy that will take place in the form of an unrepeatable assessment. The task will be entrusted "to experts in rope transport, highly specialized engineers - explains the prosecutor Bossi - of the Polytechnic of Turin".Assessment in which even the experts appointed by the suspects will be able to participate.
At the moment the investigators and the carabinieri, engaged until 5 this morning to collect evidence in the area where the detachment of the cable car took place, in addition to having heard a series of witnesses, are reconstructing society, skills and roles: there they are Ferrovie del Mottarone srl for the management, the Leitner of Vipiteno for the maintenance, a company from Gallarate in charge of the annual review with a lot of legal representatives and, at least, the safety managers. A knot to be solved is who the current owner of the cable car is. "It was from the Piedmont Region - the magistrate specified - and now it should be the Municipality of Stresa, but it is not known if the change of ownership took place". Passage that, the mayor of the municipality Marcella Severino assured in the evening, did not "it is still completed, so the ownership is still regional ".
The passage of the investigation from unknown to known could therefore be a matter of hours. "It will be a technical and documentary investigation and it will not be lightning - he continued - we prefer to move with caution". The last revision of the cables was in November 2020 and on May 3, as Leitner stated in a note, "maintenance and control of the vehicle's hydraulic braking units" were carried out; It will therefore not be easy to understand why the towing steel cable broke and the shoe brake did not activate.
For this reason, the documents seized at the Ferrovie Mottarone company will be examined, including the reports relating to the revision, which by law must be sent to a peripheral office of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. The films of the surveillance cameras will also be analyzed, also seized with the entire system, which film the arrival and departure of the cableway. Not only those of Sunday, but also the previous ones, to understand if any anomalies emerge.
Meanwhile, Leitner made it known that he was at the disposal of the judiciary, specifying that "the daily and weekly checks required by the operating regulations and the use and maintenance manual are the responsibility of the manager". And in the list of the activities carried out in recent months "according to the requirements of current legislation, on the basis of the maintenance contract signed with the management company Ferrovie del Mottarone", there is also that of three weeks ago on the hydraulic braking units of that cabin that crashed to the ground whose metal sheets are the symbol of this tragedy.
