Latin Americans Victims
A witness of the accident ensures that the avalanche pushed them. Local policemen and the mossos who attended the train station of Castelldls after the deadly outrage of 12 people last year have ensured this Thursday before the judge that the station lacked the necessary security measures, according to the lawyer of the families of the victims. The holder of the Court of instruction number 1 of Gava has taken this Thursday statement to agents of the local police and the mossos, the driver of the commuter train that had just get off the victims, of the Alaris train that hit them when they crossed the tracks, as well as directors of Renfe and Adif, neighbors in the area and others that injury resulted in the outrage. The accident occurred the night of San Juan in 2010, when a group of people, mostly young Latin Americans, who had just get off at the station of Castelldls for go to a verbena on the beach crossed the tracks without using the existing underpasses and were charged by an Alaris train passing at high speed. After the statements of the morning session, the lawyer of the families of the victims, Andreu Van den Eynde, has told journalists that the policemen who came to the station have assured the judge that the installation did not exist the conditions of safety necessary to cope with a massive influx of people. Policemen, according to counsel, acknowledged to the judge that night they knew that there would be a mass influx situation at the train station.
Despite this, counsel has considered, moreover, that curiously, when more influx of travelers, Renfe – said – it decided that there was no security or staff at the station. For its part, Machinist of the Alaris train which hit the victims has ensured that it triggered alarm mechanisms to highlight the arrival of the train, but he has ensured that it is impossible stop a train, according to Van den Eynde. According to the explanation of the Machinist told by counsel, what must be done is not ever lower the route, because the train can not stop or when there are emergencies like that night. For its part, according to Van den Eynde, representatives of Renfe and Adif also declared before the judge have ensured that the station met the necessary security measures. Not all the blame was ours for his part, one of the witnesses of the accident, who only wanted to be identified as Elisabeth, has opined that the station did not comply with the security measures since there was no vigilantes of informers or safety. Elisabeth has assured: everything was very dark, we try to leave the bridge, which was the output that we knew, but it was closed, and try to leave the station by other means, but the great flood of people who had pushed users to track. The young, 18 years old, has recognized the recklessness of the victims, but consider: not all the blame was ours. Source of the news: police officers ensure that the Castelldls station lacked the necessary security.
San Jose Time