Adamuz Judge Denies CIAF Access to Alvia Wreckage Until Experts Appointed

The magistrate in Montoro has rejected the CIAF's requests to access the crashed train and 112 recordings.

Train wreckage after an accident in Adamuz, Córdoba.
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Train wreckage after an accident in Adamuz, Córdoba.

The judge in Montoro, Cristina Pastor Recover, investigating the fatal railway accident in Adamuz last January, has denied the Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF) access to the Alvia train wreckage and 112 recordings.

The magistrate's decision, from the Civil and Instruction Section No. 2 of the Montoro (Córdoba) Court of Instance, was communicated via a decree issued this Tuesday. This resolution follows the receipt of several police reports from the Guardia Civil's Organic Judicial Police Unit, detailing various requests made by the CIAF.
In her decree, the judge stated that “there is no ground, for now and until judicial experts are appointed, for the request to access the Alvia train wreckage.” Similarly, she rejected the request to the Andalusian Health Emergency Service 112 for recordings and the final emergency deployment report, arguing that “it is not of interest for the investigation of the case.”
Regarding the CIAF's request to access wagons and railway material, the investigating judge reiterated her refusal, indicating that “there is no ground, for now, for the request, as it is not of interest for the current investigation, given that photographic reports from the ocular inspection are already on file.”
Finally, as reported by the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia, the judge has requested Renfe Viajeros Sociedad Mercantil Estatal S.A. to submit to the court, within ten days, “information on the location of the point or points enabled for the delivery of effects/luggage” and “copies of the minutes or receipts corresponding to the delivery of effects or luggage that have been handed over.”