Renfe’s lawyer has requested for benevolence for Garzón Amo within the presentation of the conclusions of the trial Adif’s defender has defended the innocence of Cortabitarte pointing to the motive force as the one wrongdoer The course of, which started in October 2022, will conclude on Thursday of subsequent week
Renfe’s lawyer has requested this Thursday the “most leniency” for Francisco José Garzón Amo, the prepare driver who on July 24, 2013 drove the Alvia from Ourense that derailed on the A Grandeira curve, earlier than getting into the Santiago station (A Coruña), inflicting 80 deaths and 145 accidents.
In the presentation of the ultimate conclusions of the trial, which can conclude subsequent week after 9 months, the consultant of the transport operator has positioned particular emphasis on the truth that this driver was the “sole guarantor of the undetected weaknesses”.
“Everything was so as, nevertheless it was not sufficient,” remarked this lawyer, who recalled that Garzón Amo obtained a name from the on-board controller, Antonio Martín Marugán, “within the worst potential place for safety functions.”
That communication to the company cell, which Garzón needed to attend to, this lawyer harassed, “was not an emergency” and in addition “was completely pointless” as a result of the motive force and defendant couldn’t have resolved the problem that was being raised, which was to facilitate the descent of a household in Pondeume (A Coruña), a degree positioned greater than 100 kilometers from the accident website.
What prompted that 100-second dialog, Renfe’s lawyer has resoundingly assured, was that Garzón Amo deserted “the psychological driving level” through which he was.
And, though this lawyer has acknowledged {that a} “highly effective” recognition level was eradicated, the transition from ERTMS to ASFA, he has mentioned that, if he had not proceeded on this approach after detecting failures, one speculation would maybe be to carry a trial for an accident however with a idea diametrically against the present one, which might be “why with all the info that was identified, the disconnection didn’t happen”.
To this commentary he has added one other, which is that “the system, at that distinctive, crucial second, didn’t assist him”.
Adif defends the innocence of Cortabitarte
Adif’s lawyer has defended this Thursday the innocence of Andrés Cortabitarte, former head of safety for the corporate on the time of the Alvia accident, pointing to the prepare driver as the one wrongdoer.
In the presentation of the definitive conclusions, the consultant of Adif has defended that within the public firm they don’t seem to be “neither insensitive, nor cynical, nor liars” for defending the innocence of their staff nor do they intend to deceive the prosecutor or the choose and affirmed that it’s “tough to say sorry for one thing for which one doesn’t really feel accountable”.
According to his imaginative and prescient, in the course of the trial it has been confirmed that there isn’t a proof in opposition to Cortabitarte or Adif, who complied with all the safety and threat evaluation protocols in power in 2011, on the time of giving the go-ahead to the commissioning of the street.
In his speech, Adif’s lawyer assured that within the trial “the performance of the Asfa system” of velocity management has been accredited. He has additionally defended that the curve the place the accident occurred “shouldn’t be distinctive” in Spain, however that “there are dozens of comparable ones through which if the motive force doesn’t management the velocity, a disaster can happen.”
In his prosecution paper, he has quantified the injury to the infrastructure brought on by the “critical negligence” of the motive force at 1.3 million euros.
Next week it will likely be seen for sentencing
The trial, which has been held within the City of Culture in Santiago since October 5, 2022, is predicted to finish subsequent week, three days after the tenth anniversary of the railway tragedy.
It is predicted that subsequent Wednesday the interventions of the Adif and Renfe insurers will happen and on Thursday of the defenses of the 2 defendants, Garzón Amo and the previous head of safety within the Adif Circulation Andrés Cortabitarte.
Later, the president Justice of the Peace Elena Fernández Currás should difficulty a sentence that’s anticipated for the final stretch of the yr.
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