The Police ratify their experts in a brief session of the Alvia trial, which is dismissed until 2023

An agent, a computer expert, confirms that they authenticated the data from the black box by means of a digital signature and provided it to the engineers

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Dec. 15 (EUROPA PRESS) -

Two national police officers who have appeared this Thursday in the trial for the Alvia accident that occurred in Angrois (Santiago) in July 2013 have reaffirmed the veracity of the expert reports and the data from the train's black box, despite the fact that they did not They were "specialists" in railway matters, as they have clarified.

The agents have responded for just 15 minutes to the few questions that have been raised by the prosecutor Mario Piñeiro and one of the lawyers. The brevity has even surprised magistrate María Elena Fernández Currás. "Some days so much and others so little", she has ironized herself, to conclude this last session of the process before the Christmas break.

The first to appear was a policeman who, when asked by the Prosecutor's Office, explained that they were not "specialists" in railway infrastructure and that, therefore, they limited themselves to "checking that everything was done as truthfully as possible" and to bring the report to court.

The policeman has confirmed himself in the report despite not being "specialists in Renfe tools". "We, as police officers, have come a long way," he said, after also clarifying that the images that appear in the report were not his, but were made by "specialist" personnel or were "taken from Google."

"We spent four days in court with download and analysis tasks. We did nothing else," he insisted. Precisely, in past sessions of the trial, other agents had confirmed their limited participation in the investigation.

The second agent to testify, a computer expert, explained to the prosecutor's questions that they extracted the data from the black boxes, authenticated it by means of a digital signature and then provided it to the engineers "so they could study it."

And it is that they did not have the capacity to interpret the data on their own. "We were there to guarantee that the data was not manipulated," she confirmed. In this sense, he has confirmed that "an exact copy" of the black box of the accident train was made, which revealed the speed at which it was going and the actions of the driver -- together with the former head of Adif Security, Andrés Cortabitarte, is one of the two defendants for the trial-- minutes before the derailment.

Given the scarcity of questions raised by the parties, Judge Fernández Currás has concluded the last session scheduled for 2022 at around 10:00 a.m. According to the schedule, the trial will resume on January 10 with the statement of the chief of the technical investigation area of ​​this incident that left 80 dead and 145 injured.