Clash between metro in Cagliari: six sentences and one acquittal
First instance sentence at the trial for the accident that in 2016 caused 85 injuries. Two years to the Metrotranvie operating manager Carlo Ornano and to the manager Arst Walter Arru
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Six sentences with suspended sentences and one acquittal.
Thus ended the trial born from the investigation into the collision between two surface metro trains that took place in Cagliari on January 19, 2016, in which 85 people were injured .
The major penalties (2 years) were imposed on Carlo Ornano, Metrotranvie's operating manager, and on Walter Arru, manager of the ARST.
The other 4 defendants - the train drivers Fabrizio Villa and Mauro Angioni, the traffic controller Roberto Randaccio and the railway operating director Franco Lai - were sentenced to sentences ranging from one year to one year and 10 months. Acquitted - as requested by the prosecutor Guido Pani - another manager of the ARST, Sergio Romoli.
The first degree sentence recognized the 6 defendants responsible for the railway disaster, all of them were acquitted of the accusation of negligent injuries.
According to the prosecution, at the origin of the collision there would have been a lack of prescriptions and violations of the regulations, unsuitable indications and lack of supervision on the compliance with the methods of operation by the personnel.
Liquidated with a provisional payment the civil parties: 50 thousand euros will go to ARST (which is also sued as civil liable), from 5 thousand to 10 thousand the sums for other compensation . The sentence will be filed in 90 days. "We wait to read the reasons - announces the lawyer Guido Manca Bitti, defender of Lai - then we will evaluate if and how to proceed with the appeal".
(Unioneonline / lf)
