The file on the accident cost for life on October 28, 2024 to the 19 -year -old skier Matilde Lorenzi, a 45 model not containing news of the crime, had been archived by the Bolzano prosecutor’s officewithout suspects, 48 hours after the girl’s death, with the clearance of the burial. Following the doubts expressed in the press by Paolo De Chiesa and Piero Gros, regarding the dynamics of the fall, the Superior Council of the judiciary, on November 22, at the request of two lay councilors (of parliamentary appointment, not magistrates), had opened a practice To verify the correctness of the work of the Bolzano prosecutor.
On November 26, Corrado Mistri Prosecutor General of Trento, owner of the disciplinary action, convened the chief prosecutor of the regent of Bolzano, Axel Bisignano: a reserved meeting in which he asked for information on the matter and the legal assessments that led to rapid storage.
Following the meeting, the Bolzano prosecutor’s office reconstructed the path that led to the decision in a public press release, which we report below, on the matter At the ski accident that took place on 28.10.2024, around 9:45, on the “Red” track, that is, of medium difficulty, GROWANT G1 of the “Alpin Arena Senales” ski area located in Senales (BZ), in Loc. Maso short, along a route of giant slalom. To better compression, it must be said, that the storage of a file does not definitively preclude the possibility that an investigation may be reopened, at the request of the prosecutor and authorization of the judge, in the presence of new crime news.
The explanation of the magistrates
From the statements made by the girl’s coach, who first assisted the dynamics of the accident “, writes the prosecutor in a press release,” it appears that the accident occurred while the athlete “made a edge, losing control of the descent and ending ruinously off the track”. The carabinieri of the Senales station and the alpine training center of Selva Val Gardena transmitted the results of the investigations as a non -constituent crime, given that, as shown by the inspection report and by the attached photographs, the track was delimited with “PDA positioned in compliance with the current legislation”, the accident occurred “in the final phase of the descent and more precisely in the area almost flat by the area a widening with a modest slope (about 15 °) “, e violations of safety legislation were not detected.
As can be seen from the vision of some photographs that appeared in the press, that section of the track was not delimited by a protection/containment network, given that pursuant to art. 13 of the provincial law n. 14/2010, as last modified with provincial law of Bolzano of 18.07.2023, n. 15, there were no curves or sections characterized by a strong slope or characteristics such as to cause dangerous track escapes. Also pursuant to articles 9 c. 1 and 3 and 7 LP 14/2010 (“Delimitation of ski slopes”) there was no atypical danger, neither internal nor external to the track, as defined by art. 15 of the execution regulation (i.e. plants, boulders, supports of ski lifts, trees, particularly narrow curves near precipices, crevasses, moving snowmobiles etc.), such as to impose on the manager along that training route protection measures and/or signs, not even pursuant to art. 10 of Legislative Decree 2021 n. 40.
As the carabinieri took over in the ski accident report, that day the snow was compact and well beaten, there was good weather, the visibility was excellent, with the absence of wind. Place, therefore, that in the stretch of track where the injury had occurredthe same characteristics of the track were such as to exclude any obligation to activate by the manager, not existing any internal or external pitfall to the track, which should justify the adoption of special precautions, and not recognizing itself by the carabinieri or by the Public Prosecutor’s office the violation of any precautionary rule, it was considered and is believed that the deadly event was caused by a fact. abstractly qualifiable as a crime and the relative file was enrolled in Model 45 (as a non -constituent crime); reason why not even autopsy investigations have been arrangedbut this power of attorney has released the authorization to burial as soon as possible, also out of respect for the family.
The Foundation in memory of the skier
In memory of Matilde, precisely to grow the culture of security in alpine skiing, the Lorenzi family in recent months has given birth to a foundation named after her daughter. “The Matilde Lorenzi Foundation”, reads the official website, “intends to promote and develop projects aimed at implementing safety in skiing. The Foundation was born from the belief that every skier and every athlete, regardless of age or level, deserves to practice this sport in a safe and conscious environment, where prevention and training are priority “.
