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With an act at the Sarmiento Line train terminal, the relatives and close friends of the 51 deceased and almost 800 injured in the Eleven Tragedy remembered the victims, ten years following that event. They reiterated their justice claim and effective compliance with sentences handed down in courtand discovered a plate remembering your loved ones.
The traditional act on Platform 1 began at 8:32time in which the Chapa 11 formation of the Sarmiento Line coming from the west of Buenos Aires collided with the hydraulic bumpers of the railway terminal.
At that time and under the slogan “corruption kills”the relatives made a siren sound for a few minutes and then read one by one the names of the 52 dead people.
The expert reports determined that the train, which It carried eight wagons and traveled at regarding 20 kilometers per hour. – a speed five times higher than normal when entering a station –, he had not been able to brake.
Of the eight wagons, only six had compressed air compressors to operate the brakes, for which maintenance tasks had been deferred for seven of the eight wagons. It was also possible to determine that the bumpers did not have their hydraulic system in operation and that the break system of dead man, which is activated if the driver loses consciousness
The rescuers, mostly firefighters, police, SAME personnel and Civil Defensethey worked for more than 24 hours to get the victims out of the iron.
Of the 19 convicted of the act, 18 have already exhausted their sentence or agreed to the progressive regimes that allows them to enjoy parole, under conditions of conduct that must be fulfilled under penalty of returning to prison.
The condemned officials and businessmen always argued that the Chapa 11 formation that crashed into the arrival end of the Once station platforms braked correctly and that the incident was due to human error only attributable to the engineer Marcos Córdoba.
For Justice, the poor state of conservation of the formationsproduct of the deviation of the subsidies that the State paid for the proper functioning of the trains, contributed to the tragedy and increased its consequences.
