The Court of Valencia has reopened the investigation into the accident Valencia Metro 2006, in which 43 people died and 47 were injured. The second section of the High Court has accepted in a car the appeal filed by the prosecution against the enacted late last year by a judge, the same as the issue shelved in 2007 file.
The prosecution had first called for the reopening and later appealed claiming that the file existed and other new data " which at the time were not assessed " affecting " the state " of the injured convoy.
The investigation into the accident was closed at the time by the head of the court of Instruction No. 21 Valencia held responsible to the driver, who was among the dead, and therefore criminal liability extinguished.
The incident had no political consequences either in the Valencian administration, although during the investigation revealed shortcomings in the public service due to lack of investment by the Government. The government of then president Francisco Camps handled the accident as a problem occurred within days of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI Valencia, and limited the investigation opened in the Valencian Parliament sessions a week in the month of August, what was the shortest in the history committee of the House.
The victims have been protesting this week about how the events were treated to the European Parliament, invited by the Socialist deputy Andrés Pepa.
The Association of Victims July 3 subway accident has appeared continuously on the 3rd of each month at the Plaza de la Virgen de Valencia since shortly after the incident, but only in recent years has received wide public support. The association has been demanding the reopening of the court case, and the assumption of responsibility by the Valencian Government.
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