The sleepless night stationmaster “On the cross, but I also victim” – BBC

“I raised the paddle , of course I raised. I gave off. But it’s not only my fault. Now all they throw the blame, but the real victim is me. ” Vito Piccarreta, the station master of Andria, now under investigation, is not prepared to make a scapegoat of a massacre. “He’s upset. Destroyed. Does not eat. Does not sleep. He continues to think of that moment that changed his life forever. Crushed by the weight of all those dead people in a horrible way. He always did his job conscientiously. Leave him alone. Not to speculate on the misfortunes, “says a family friend. The green light to train, as the attorney acting for Trani functions, Francesco Giannella, ‘whatever went on that track should not be there, “Piccarreta gave it.

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Apulia, who are the victims of the clash between the two trains between Corato and Andria

 
 

Fulvio Schinzari

 

“But respected our pain. We destroyed “, said yesterday his wife who appeared on his doorstep, the residence in a suburban area of ​​Corato, near the stadium. Piccarreta, described by a friend who shares with him the passion of basketball, as “gentle and decent person, family man and loving husband, not a madman, but a serious person ‘and proud of his role at the point of appearing on the Facebook profile with the

paddle in his hand, it is now on trial for manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter disaster plural. “But it was not questioned,” assures the Giannella prosecutor, denying rumors of his informal questioning of the day of the incident, he went on into the night. Meanwhile, as a precautionary measure, he has been suspended from duty. Waiting to see what was the short circuit of the information.

A measure that also hit Alessio Porcelli , the station master of Corato, where it started the other train accident. He, too, is under investigation for that tragic misunderstanding in communications. He says the son, twenty-seven, pharmaceutical informant, on the phone, “Dad is very saddened. Not only for people who were traveling on the train. But also something that many underestimate: in that accident lost colleagues. Train drivers aboard those trains.

The tragedy has disturbed forever the balance of these parts . It would have happened anywhere. But here even more so. ” The father, “that does this job before I was born, but it keeps very well,” he says, not sneaking up on other colleagues. “A technical or mechanical error can always be lurking,” says the son. An ambush, this time, deadly.

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