In September, the boy who survived the worst cable car accident in Italy in 20 years was taken to Israel.
Six-year-old Eitan Biran, the only survivor of the fall of the funicular on the cable car Stresa-Mottarone, returned to Italy after a fierce family struggle for custody.
This is reported by the BBC.
After the parents, brother, great-grandfather and great-grandmother of the boy died in the incident, the Italian court placed the child under the care of his paternal aunt Ayia Biran-Nirko, who lives in Pavia.
However, in September, Eitan's maternal grandfather, Shmulik Peleg, took the boy for a walk, without permission, took him to the Swiss city of Lugano, after which he put him on a private plane to Tel Aviv.
The man insisted on the legality of his actions, however, the Italian prosecutor's office opened an investigation into the kidnapping. An Israeli court also ruled that Eitan should return to Italy.
At the same time, the child's return was delayed as the Peleg family filed an appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court. It was canceled last month. Despite this, the boy's Israeli relatives declare that they will continue to fight for Eitan “by all legal means.”
Eitan's parents Amit Biran and Tal Peleg, brother Tom, as well as great-grandfather and great-grandmother on paternal in an accident on the Stresa-Mottarone cable car, along with nine other people in the cab. The funicular fell from a height of about one and a half kilometers, it happened a few meters from the finish line, at the last pylon.
Fourteen people from the companies that built, maintained and operated the cable car system are under investigation.
The prosecutor's office claims that the emergency brakes, which were supposed to prevent the cab from falling in the event of a break in the lead cable, were disabled to avoid interruptions in work.
This is the worst cable car accident in Italy for more than 20 years. In February 1998, twenty people were killed when a US military aircraft flying too low cut a cockpit cable near a Dolomites ski resort in Cavalese.
