Suviana massacre, here are the questions the search for truth starts from

The work of the experts appointed by the prosecutors has begun, focus on Scada systems

BOLOGNA – Illustrate the activity of the Bargi hydroelectric power plant, explaining the functioning of generation groups 1 and 2. Explain what modernization works have been carried out in the past years and if the system was equipped with all safety and protection devices in the event of operating anomalies or faults. Analyze the ‘commissioning’ activities, i.e. the trials and tests to study the behavior of the system up to the maximum permitted load. And, finally, analyze the two Scada systems (the so-called ‘black boxes’), evaluating whether or not it is a one-off assessment. All with the aim of ascertaining the dynamics of the facts, reconstructing the causes of the accident and identifying any responsibilities. These, in summary, are the questions that the chief prosecutor of Bologna Giuseppe Amato and the deputies Flavio Lazzarini and Michela Guidi entrusted to the four consultants Carlo Alberto Nucci, Vincenzo Parenti Castelli, Enio Paris and Domenico Pianese, appointed to shed light on the disaster that occurred last April 9 in the power plant on Lake Suviana, which cost the lives of seven people.

THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE SET AN INITIAL DEADLINE OF 60 DAYS FOR VERIFICATIONS

At the moment, a case is open regarding the disaster against unknown persons, which suggests the crimes of negligent disaster, manslaughter and negligent injury. This afternoon a meeting which lasted over an hour was held at the Prosecutor’s Office, in which, in addition to the four experts, the lawyers appointed by the families of some of the victims and their consultants, the heads of the Police fire and the Carabinieri. The consultants were given an initial deadline of 60 days, starting today, to carry out the checks.

THE LAWYER OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF A VICTIM : ‘BLACK BOXES’ SHOULD BE HANDLED WITH CARE

On Scada systems, explains Gabriele Bordoni, lawyer for the family members of one of the victims, as he leaves the prosecutor’s office, “an auxiliary must intervene who has the necessary skills to verify that component and verify its stability in the face of the possibility of cloning it on a forensic-computer level”. In essence, we will need to understand “if it will be possible to intervene on those devices without compromising anything”. For his part, Bordoni specifies that he and the other lawyers appointed by the victims’ families have “reserved the right to appoint other experts, and possibly also an IT auxiliary, because if the SCADA acquisitions were to be actually decisive it will be necessary to find a technician capable of speak to a high-level computer scientist who can copy and analyze that material”.