Eitan, 5, has a head injury: is hospitalized in Turin and his condition is serious but stable. Yesterday, in the tragedy of the Stresa – Mottarone cable car, of which it is the only survivor, she lost her two-year-old brother Tom, her mother Tal Peleg and her father Amit. The Biran family, of Israeli origins, lived in Pavia, where aunt Aya left yesterday: they took a room in a hotel in Turin to stay next to their nephew.
“I learned what happened from my friends’ WhatsApp messages.
“Oh I’m sorry”, they started writing to me, ”he told Republic. “On the fourth message, I thought another missile had crashed in Israel. So I called my brother but he didn’t answer me, then my sister-in-law and she didn’t answer me either. Something wrong. So I wrote to my friends but what happened? Two hours after the confirmation of the names of the carabinieri ». At first nothing was known about Eitan. “We didn’t know where he was, we knew it was him when we saw he wasn’t on the list of victims.” The little one arrived at the hospital in helicopter rescue in the early afternoon and then suffered five hours of surgery for arm and leg fractures.
Tal Peleg’s parents also died in the cable car tragedy. «They arrived as tourists, over eighty and vaccinated. They had decided to come. There are missiles in Israel: what can happen in Italy? They wanted to see their grandchildren. ‘
Thirteen people died instantly, while a nine-year-old child died yesterday at the infant hospital in Turin.
#Mattarella: The tragic accident at the #fairway Stresa-Mottarone arouses deep pain for the victims and great apprehension for those who are struggling for life in these hours.
I express the participation of all of Italy to the affected families and communities in mourning– Quirinale (@Quirinale) May 23, 2021
“I can’t describe what I saw: too strong”
Cristiano L’Altrella, volunteer rescuer and foreman of the Stresa Fire Brigade detachment, was the first to arrive at the scene of the tragedy. “We have found a battlefield, bodies of boys, men and women scattered on the mountain slope. We had climbed to the top, to the terminus of the cable car, where these people never arrived. And from there we went down following the line of the cables. Below is a cleared strip, like under all cable cars. A very steep slope, it will be 80%. We were sliding down too. Until 3-400 meters below we saw the crumpled red cabin, it had rolled down and stopped against a pine, thirty meters beyond the last pylon. Before arriving we found two bodies, two men, ”he told Republic.
In the cabin “there were five people, piled one on top of the other. Only one was breathing, the one that stood above the others. We have tried in every way to save him. He was unconscious but the signs of life were still there. We put the oxygen mask on him, ambu, heart massage. It’s the first aid protocol. But nothing, he didn’t make it. The baby was under him. Eyes closed, like everyone. I can’t describe what I saw, too much, too strong ».
“Regular maintenance”
What was the cause of the tragedy? There are those who speak of lightning: the cable car has undergone important extraordinary maintenance over the years. But the last word will be up to the technicians that the Verbania prosecutor will appoint to clarify what happened. «The maintenances and the checks were carried out regularly», Explained the lawyer of the management company, Ferrovie del Mottarone, who refers to the Nerini family, the lawyer Pasquale Pantano. The Leitner of Vipiteno, the maintenance company, confirms that “the last magnetoscopic inspection of the rope was carried out in November 2020 and the results of the same did not reveal any critical issues”.
The replacement of the cables was scheduled for 2029, eight years from now. “Everything will be subject to technical checks in the next few days”, underlines Olimpia Bossi, public prosecutor in Verbania. «We are carrying out investigations and technical checks. It is certain that the cable car had almost finished its run, an element that adds great sadness ».
The plant was impounded. The crime hypothesis, for now without any suspect, is multiple manslaughter and culpable injury.
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