Investigation against FDP national councilor Anna Giacometti: new criminal proceedings over fatal landslide in Bondo GR

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The magazine ‘Observer’ reported online on Tuesday evening about the new criminal investigation. The Public Prosecution Service of Graubünden confirmed this to Keystone-SDA on Wednesday morning.

The researchers therefore relied on a private report that said the 2017 landslide had been “foreshadowed by numerous foreshadowings” and that authorities had taken an “unacceptable risk” by not closing hiking trails in advance. The results of Vaud geologist Thierry Oppikofer’s report were announced in December 2023.

The first investigation has been stopped

The new criminal investigation involves two experts from the Grisons Office for Forests and Natural Hazards, an external geologist and two representatives of the municipality of Bregaglia, including the former mayor and current FDP national councilor Anna Giacometti, as the “Observer” wrote. No statement was available from them.

The Public Prosecution Service concluded an initial investigation into the accident in 2019. She concluded that the landslide could not be predicted. However, the Federal Court has accepted a complaint from the relatives of the buried. It explained that the judiciary should not have relied solely on the findings of officials but should have sought expert advice. The case was subsequently reopened.

One of the largest landslides in Switzerland in more than 130 years killed eight people on August 23, 2017 on a hiking trail on the Piz Cengalo near Bondo. They came from Germany, Austria and Switzerland and have been missing ever since.

In Bergell’s side valley, Val Bondasca, three million cubic meters of rock thundered into the valley. The rock masses rolled like rubble into the main Bergell valley. The mountain village of Bondo narrowly escaped destruction. The approximately 200 residents were evacuated. (SDA)

Source:Blick