She recalls that she had already launched a similar investigation, concerning the same line of the Spanish railway network, after another accident that killed 46 people in Andalusia on January 18. The court, in its statement, indicates that this tragedy, which occurred on October 28, is the subject of checks focusing in particular on the use of European funds.
An erroneous instruction was then given from the Madrid control center, asking one of the trains to resume traveling at normal speed.
The investigators have the support of the Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard, a judicial police service.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office does not replace the national criminal investigation into the immediate causes of the collision.
Two high-speed trains had then collided near the municipality of Adamuz.
According to the first findings of the Spanish investigation, the Urda tragedy began with a computer failure that forced several trains to stop.