Overview
- The hearing convened June 19 in Verbania under Judge Gianni Macchioni, with Alessandro Pepè leading the prosecution.
- Five defendants—Luigi Nerini, Enrico Perocchio, Gabriele Tadini, Martin Leitner and Peter Rabanser—face charges of manslaughter, negligent injury and endangering transport safety.
- In March the prosecution reformulated the case, dropping allegations against Leitner SpA and Ferrovie del Mottarone and focusing on personal negligence counts.
- Perocchio and Tadini are separately accused of falsifying safety logs by omitting reports of cable entanglement and hydraulic pressure losses before the May 2021 disaster.
- Seventy-nine civil parties representing relatives of the 14 victims have been admitted after previously waiving their claims following compensation agreements.