Concentration of the Association of Victims of Metro July 3 – RTVE.es
rarely is said clearly that when a traffic accident with a number of deaths and multiple injuries occurs, the way they react the authorities serves as a sign of their political height if its commitment to the citizens is true and, of course, something as basic as his honesty, his sense of justice and his willingness to defend above all other interests involved. The events that took place after the accident Metrovalencia 2006 did not leave much doubt about this issue .
The accident
After an hour noon July 3, two units of line one Metrovalencia , each with each motor cars and 150 passengers on board, left the station Plaza of Spain in direction of Torrent. When they were about fifty meters from the station of Jesus, derailed in the curve of access to this. It was the worst subway accident in the history of Spain, third in Europe and fourth in the world. The Valencia was the worst subway accident in the history of Spain, the third in Europe and fourth in the world
the first train crawled into the wall of the tunnel and on the track after overturning to his left; the second did not get him anything like that happen. The windows of the first shed their frames and many of the people in it were came out fired outside the carriages and were crushed, and later found emergency services scattered along the curve of the tunnel, after . come here by distress calls of travelers trapped
the Emergency Coordination Center put in place immediately; The area was cordoned off and two field hospitals were set up next to the subway station; the wounded and the bodies of those killed were allocated to the Institute of Forensic Medicine were attended. “We found a field of corpses. Almost all the dead were out of the car, “he recalls one of the firefighters who came to the tunnel. There were forty-one dead and forty-nine people wounded of varying degrees, all of the first train, but two of the last succumbed after days in hospitals. The second train entered the service five later.
Investigations and prosecutions
Three weeks after the accident a commission of inquiry into the facts established in the Valencian Parliament, reluctantly Popular Party, which was in government both of Valencia as the city of Valencia at the time. On August 4 2006, the commission concluded that the subway line through which flowed the ill-fated convoy was perfectly safe and, moreover, the only culprit of the accident was the driver, who died in it, driving by that section at twice the speed allowed . the commission of inquiry in 2006 was the shortest of the parliamentary history with the four few days of
the commission, which was the shortest of all parliamentary history, there were thirty-two appearances in the four few days of, for the Popular Party used its absolute majority, not only for vetoing hearings of experts and relevant documentation had requested the other parties, but also the conclusions were approved with the only votes of the popular . There was opposition MPs who expressed their suspicions that the technical comparecientes had been prepared to insist that the accident was inevitable, but the popular and related the branded a paranoid and, at the same time, political carrion.
Work rescue Jesus station – ElNacional.cat
If it had been scheduled timely braking command at the mark of the tunnel, would have prevented the accident
Meanwhile, in the first judicial investigation conducted, judge Nieves Molina, head of the court of Instruction Number 21 Valencia , commissioned a report by an independent expert to see if it was logical that the train had derailed on that curve at the speed circulating, and when the answer was yes this gave closed the case and refused to continue work . This happened in March 2007, about two months before regional and municipal elections, after which the same judge decided to reopen the case but closed it again finding no criminal responsibility, which for her not exclude that had policies .
Over time, thanks to the media, public opinion was learning that, months before the accident, had delivered a report to the leadership of the Railways of the Generalitat Valenciana black spots indicating the metro network and precautionary measures needed to be taken . In the run up to the station of Jesus, specifically tunnel, there was a bump that buffeted some trains to pass through it and, by the progressive deterioration of infrastructure due to lack of investment for its proper maintenance, required a beacon automatic braking point , indicating the speed limit, and the tunnel had her but was not scheduled to give the order corresponding speed train. If the clamping the windowpanes it had not been poor, no passenger would have been thrown to their deaths
in addition, in June 2011, a machinist stated that clamping frames crystals in carriages was poor because he had not done with the silicone prescribed by the manufacturer and have not been, no passenger would have been thrown to their deaths. Therefore, if there had been timely order in the beacon of the tunnel, he would have prevented the accident and, otherwise, if the subject of the window frames had been the one that had many fatalities now be counted among the . live
But ensure it was not the only reason why this driver, named Luis Jorge, was reprimanded by the direction of the FGV: also told that the driver of the crashed train a dead they sought to foist all responsibility, was epilepticus, a condition that disqualified to drive trains .
One of the wagons disaster victims – Huffingtonpost.es
the book of faults that derailed on that fateful tunnel , on the other hand, disappeared without trace , which, in the opinion of engineers and safety experts FGV is only possible if someone took him from the accident, because it was a good behemoth that can deteriorate but does not volatilize. As their copies, which, coincidentally, also disappeared. The FGV hired a communications consultancy with public money to train your employees and insisted that the accident was unavoidable
And to top it off, in March 2012, it was known that FGV aleccionaron employees at various meetings on what to testify in the inquiry commission 2006 , hiring money public services consulting company communications HM and Sanchis, all with the same object had suspected parliamentarians who put his finger on this sore and so they called everything: insist that the accident was unavoidable, in that line one of Metrovalencia was safe and that there was no responsibility of any kind for negligence because of poor maintenance.
a Marisa Gracia, manager FGV then was dismissed because of it by the popular president who replaced Francisco Camps when he was forced to resign by the plot of corruption Gürtel, Alberto Fabra, was heard to adamantly deny the commission of inquiry had been agreed in the company to implement ” a strategy “when precisely the sobering meetings took place in his office, even to test the replies to be given, without words like ‘tragedy’, ‘deficient’ or go, ‘beacon’ .
Concentration of the Association Victims of Metro July 3 – RocafortReflexionaFiles
employees of FGV held with meals the success of their plans in the inquiry commission
And if all this were not enough, regardless of subsequent meals company of FGV to celebrate the success of their plans to the commission, the relatives of the victims of Torrent testified that Juan Cotino, today former adviser the Valencian government and former president of the Parliament, appeared at home in the following days of the incident, to offer jobs with the veiled condition not to take legal action seeking responsibilities . The same condition contained in a kind of contract to be signed if they would receive 60,000 euros in compensation from the FGV, which was necessary at all.
Only after learning what had happened and especially , orders that had been given from the direction of the chain and the offices of the regional government, viewers of public television of Valencia could react with shock at the news coverage that this had given the accident. in 2013, Canal Nou recognized “an attitude unworthy for a public television should be next to its citizens” for its treatment of accident
not even changed the programming the day came : “If Channel 9 at the time did not cut information and did not make a display that could well make because they have the means, professionals and were in the same city, if not compete with other chains themselves were live on the site where the accident occurred is because there was a decision from the editorial line and from the direction of the house not to interrupt the programming, “says the one who was editor of the news, Frederic Ferri .
it seems that what Canal Nou did with the accident Metrovalencia, tiptoe around the subject and reproduce the official speech was just another of the maneuvers of popular government to try to cover it happened and avoid responsibility . And in November 2013, when it was announced the closure of Radio Television Valenciana, the news team recognized, in a broadcast from the subway station stop Jesus, who had “an attitude unworthy for a public television should be next to its citizens. “
on May 17, 2013, after the enormous indignation that had awakened the article” the forgotten “program Salvados , led by Jordi Évole and issued in the sixth, and the massive concentration that this was achieved for the Association of Victims of Metro on July 3 in the Plaza de la Virgen de Valencia, where each month met, the Prosecutor reopened the investigation . But on September 17, the same judge, Nieves Molina, dismissed the request to reopen because, understandably, considered that there was nothing new under the sun. The huge outrage which aroused the report of the program Salvados about the accident again put justice in place
the Association of Victims not give up, he appealed the decision and in January 2014, the Second Section of the Provincial Court of Valencia sent reopen the investigation to clarify once and for all causes and if there are possible Metrovalencia responsible for the loss. “It shows the existence of new elements of research that could lead to new suspicions and make useful the continuation of instruction,” says the self; and continues. “There can be no hesitation or wavering, we should not lose heart in seeking the truth to avoid secondary victimization of victims of fatal accident”
The same Nieves Molina decided to allocate in May 2014 three directors of FGV : Vicente Contreras, director of exploitation, which had been very strong in the commission of inquiry and threw brawls that “were wrong” in his statements, Francisco Garcia Siguenza, technical director, and Francisco Orts, the head of Studies and Projects. They, like other three then also accused including Gracia, could be convicted of a crime of recklessness if it is found that “there was a mistake in planning and programming of the beacons was decisive in the derailment and tipping the subway “and” inadequate protective measures curve with visual signaling “.
New commission of inquiry Metrovalencia accident – RTVE.es
And on the ninth anniversary of the accident, members of the new Valencian Parliament outputs of the regional elections of 2015 agreed with the abstention of the Popular Party, out lead a new commission of inquiry on it. During that period, the Union of Journalists delivered a report certifying the information manipulation of Channel 9 , under the command of Pedro Garcia and Luis Montes, then CEO of RTVV and chief information respectively by ” misrepresentation, concealment, lack of transparency and rigging news, “according to the parliamentary committee said then. according to the new commission of inquiry, the Popular Party government wanted to” prevent any other version was imposed the official “
in its conclusions of 24 June 2016, after 150 hours of hearings and seventy testimonies, this states that the accident was predictable and preventable that the Popular Party government “aimed to prevent any other version of the official was imposed” and that, apart from other nine, Camps and Cotino have political responsibilities in the whole case, and Grace and Contreras, as leaders of FGV. And will create the Valencian Railway Safety Agency to ensure it , which is one of the demands of the Association of Victims, which has finally seen their struggle has borne fruit. But hopefully never make lack so hard .
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