Italian police are carrying out
preventive detention warrants for four people in relation to the
breakdown of escalators at two Rome metro stations, Repubblica
and Barberini, sources said Thursday.
Two of the four are employees of the Rome metro company,
Metro Roma, and two of the municipal transport company ATAC, the
sources said.
They have been charged with fraud in public supplies and
aggravated personal injuries.
The probe shed light on the causes of the accident on October
23 last year, when some fans of CSKA Moscow were injured when
the escalator at Repubblica gave way.
The operation also unearthed the causes of the breakdown of
the escalators at Barberini on March 21.
The Repubblica stop on line A remained closed for eight
months before being reopened on June 26.
Barberini is still closed.
The Spagna stop on the same line was also closed, meaning
that for a long while three of the main stations on the A line
were out of commission for angry commuters.
But many Rome metro escalators are still out of order: eight
on line A, six on line B and one on line C.
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