A lawyer representing former
Pescara prefect Francesco Provolo said Monday that he had handed
in documentation to prosecutors investigating the Rigopiano
avalanche that showed the authorities were taking action before
the day that the disaster struck.
The January 18 avalanche that hit Abruzzo's Rigopiano Hotel
claimed 29 lives.
"The documentation that we have handed in regards the calling
of the rescue coordination centre, which was at 10:00 in the
morning of January 16 and not midday on the 18th, as the
prosecutor's office had been induced to assert up to now by the
documentation in its possession," said the lawyer, Giandomenico
Caiazza.
The probe is looking into a variety of factors, including
"the circumstances and decisions about the opening" of the hotel
and access roads to it and whether the situation was initially
underestimated by officials in charge of the rescue effort,
prosecutors have said.
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