Venice, her husband died on the Grand Canal: the widow will not pay
The first instance and appeal sentences seemed almost a mockery. She, who had lost her husband in that tragic accident on the Grand Canal of 17 August 2013, had even been sentenced to pay legal fees of about 400 thousand euros to the lawyers of those who had instead asked for a maxi-compensation of 8.7 million. euro, as the appeal was declared inadmissible in both cases. Now to start all over again, after the Court of Cassation has decided to annul the sentence of the Lagoon Court of Appeal on the civil case relating to the death of Joachim Vogel, the 50-year-old German criminologist overwhelmed by an Actv vaporetto while he was in a gondola with his wife and three children right next to the Rialto bridge. The reason of the judicial-procedural authority. In cases for maritime accidents, if there is a dispute over technical questions, the appointment of the technical consultant and his participation in the decision-making phase of the process are mandatory., both in the first instance and in the appeal judgment, the judges of the Supreme Court write. In both cases this had not happened and that was enough, for the stoats, for the judgment to return to Piazzale Roma in front of a new college. But the lawyer of Mrs. Gundula Schafer, widow of Vogel, the lawyer Lorenzo Picotti, prudent: We are happy because now the games have been reopened, but this sentence still leaves many alternatives possible – he affirms – For now the unfortunate decision of the Court of Appeal has been remedied, which had deemed our 50-page appeal inadmissible, with a simple order. We are calm, convinced that the Court will only be able to reiterate the inadmissibility of the appeal as unfounded, replies the lawyer Gabriele Ann, who protects the gondolier who was transporting the family.
The criminal investigation
The criminal investigation had confirmed that his combearing had been corrected because, seeing the movement of the three vaporettos involved, he had stopped at the jetty of the Magistrato alle Acque. But the third Actv vehicle, after having turned vigorously, had swerved, overwhelming the gondola. However, the lawyer Picotti had decided to sue the pope’s insurance, as he was responsible for what had happened to the transporter. Ann then cited in turn the other media involved and the Actv, with their respective insurance companies. According to the reconstruction of the process, the gondolier Daniele Forcellini (definitively sentenced to 10 months) had come out of a side canal and stopped in the middle of the Grand Canal, forcing a couple of Actv vaporettos, led by Riccardo De Ambrosi and Fabio Zamboni, to invade the other lane, while a third vehicle, led by Manuele Venerando, swerved to the right, overwhelming the gondola. Even for the three pilots the sentence became final with penalties from 7 months to one year and 2 months.
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November 24, 2021 (change November 24, 2021 | 08:17)
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