The director of a French
chairlift company is to go on trial in Italy four years after a
British teenager was fatally injured during a school ski trip,
ANSA learned Friday.
Phoonam Battai, 13, was killed after she fell from a
chair-lift in Claviere, around 80km from Turin, in January 2013.
In April next year, the director of the French company
Régie des remontées mécaniques Montgenèvre, which managed the
'Col Boeuf' ski-lift, will be tried over the incident.
Two directors from the Office for Special Transport and
Fixed Installations, which is part of the Ministry of Transport,
will also go on trial.
Judge Gianni Macchioni ordered three indictments and
welcomed a proposal by a fourth defendant to negotiate a plea
bargain for a year and four months in prison.
The family of the girl has brought a civil action with the
help of lawyer Marco Bona, who said relatives had been given no
compensation following the incident.
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