A CIAF investigator confronts the victims of Adamuz: "There is a lack of transparency, our reports change; we would like the truth to come out"

The analysis of the Adamuz accident issued by the technical organizations that have investigated it since the moment of the accident that claimed 46 lives on January 18 has been seriously affected today in the Congress of Deputies, when one of the investigators of the Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF) has asked the victims not to cease their pressure to find out the causes of the tragedy. "I would like the truth to come out."

Isabel López thus addressed the victims of the Adamuz accident, who were participating in a joint event with victims of other tragic accidents such as that of Angrois, Spanair, German Wings or Swiftair at the parliamentary headquarters. "Things have not been done as they should have been done, we are very aware," he denounced from the seats reserved for the public once the spokespersons had given a voice to the attendees.

"Since I took over the Adamuz investigation, I have tried to make it this way," he declared in relation to the transparency of the information that was being collected. "Both I and my partner have known first-hand all the tragedies. It is not a tragedy, Adamuz is not a tragedy, there are many tragedies, there are many families, there are many affected. I would like those who make the decisions to be with me in those interviews and listen to the situations that we have to face every day to get to the truth and we would like that truth to come out," he confessed in front of the victims and, also, a few seats away from the president of the organization who, since last July, has assumed the technical investigations of the incident.

The CIAF, which, chaired by Iñaki Barrón, initiated the technical investigations that are now called into question due to lack of transparency and independence, was dissolved last July to join the AITAT, a new body for investigating air, sea and land accidents. Gonzalo Julián Guillén, its president, has responded by denying the lack of transparency and asking the victims for more time, since in three months he has barely managed to create a structure capable of responding to their demands.

Specifically, López's complaint is that "on many occasions" the technical reports prepared to discover the causes of the accident are modified when they reach "higher" authorities and that the Adamuz accident has been done due to a lack of transparency and independence, something that harms the investigators themselves, who point to the review of their findings carried out by their superiors in the organization. "I want to call for the technical criteria of researchers to be respected: it is the only guarantee that our work is not at the service of anyone, of any entity."