A video recorded by one of the victims
shortly before the rail disaster on the night of August 30 that
left five track maintenance workers dead "speaks for itself",
his brother said on Wednesday.
"I think the video speaks for itself. My brother did justice for
himself," said Antonino Laganà, whose brother Kevin was the
youngest of the five men hit and killed by a train while
replacing tracks at Brandizzo station near Turin.
The video, recorded by Kevin on his mobile phone, suggests the
maintenance workers may have known that they did not have the
all-clear to start work and that it was possible a train would
arrive on the track.
"Lads, if I say 'train,' go that way, ok?" a man can be heard
saying.
The two survivors, the foreman of the team of workers employed
by a contractor and the Italian rail company RFI employee
responsible for the worksite, have been placed under
investigation in relation to the incident, which has returned
the issue of workplace safety to the centre of public debate.
Investigators are trying to work out why work was allowed to
begin before there was confirmation that traffic on the line had
been halted.
Sources say investigators believe work started even though the
RFI employee was denied the all-clear for it to begin in three
phone calls with network officials.
The investigators are also trying to work out whether the fact
the men were at work without the all-clear to start was a
one-off thing, or whether it is something that happens
frequently in such operations.
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