Five Acquitted over Deadly 2017 Landslide in Swiss Alps
The court found no clear warning signs before the 2017 rockslide and said the five defendants were not negligent.
- On Friday, the Maloja Regional Court in Switzerland acquitted all five defendants in the 2017 Bondo landslide trial, including Parliamentarian Anna Giacometti, finding no evidence of clear warning signs before the disaster.
- Eight people lost their lives in August 2017 when four million cubic metres of rock cascaded down Piz Cengalo at 250 kilometres per hour, destroying part of the village of Bondo.
- Prosecutors in Graubunden had charged two cantonal officials, an external geologist, and two Bregaglia representatives with homicide by negligence, seeking suspended fines for the five defendants.
- The court ruled defendants were not negligent for failing to close hiking trails, concluding there was no evidence of an imminent major incident in the weeks preceding the landslide.
- An alert system installed after a 2011 rockslide allowed authorities to evacuate two mountain huts and residents of Bondo before the landslide reached the village, sparing the community.
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Five acquitted over deadly 2017 landslide in Swiss Alps
Four German, two Austrian and two Swiss hikers were buried by the landslide in an Alpine valley in southeast Switzerland, close to the Italian border. The search was called off after two days. Following an investigation, prosecutors in the Graubunden region charged two cantonal employees, a forest ranger, a local official and a geologist with homicide by negligence. "The five defendants were acquitted by the Maloja Regional Court," a spokesman f…
Three million cubic metres of rock were buried in a rock fall in Switzerland in 2017 and eight hikers died. Could their death have been prevented? Five defendants have now been acquitted.
In August 2017, a mountain crash at Piz Cengalo triggered a debris avalanche that killed eight hikers. Was the disaster predictable? Five people, among them a politician, had to answer for it in court.
Five people were on trial, accused of multiple negligent killings.
The Court held that there was no evidence to suggest the disaster. The defendants did not act negligently by not closing the hiking routes, according to the judgment handed down on Friday in PontresinaThe Maloja Regional Court acquitted the five defendants of the trial of the fatal collapse that occurred in 2017 over Bondo (GR).They were accused of manslaughter by negligence.The National Councillor and ex-Mayor of Bregaglia, Anna Giacometti, was…
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