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 lone survivor, 5-year-old Eitan Biran, remains hospitalized but conscious, with his aunt looking after him. Eitan's parents, his younger brother and his great-grandparents were killed in the disaster.The Italian region of Piedmont observed a minute of silence at noon Sunday, and flags flew at half-staff to mark the moment one week ago when the disaster struck.
"He is not a criminal and would never have let people go up with the braking system blocked had he known that there was even a possibility that the cable would have broken," Perillo said. "He can't even begin to get his head around the fact that the cable broke." But lawyers for Nerini and Perocchio said the two denied knowing anything about Tadini's maneuver and said they had no reason to let a cable car without a brake system operate.
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