Eitan, the five-year-old boy who survived a cable car accident in Italy, leaves the ICU

Eitan, the only 5-year-old boy to survive the cable car disaster in northern Italy on May 23, has left the Intensive Care Unit of the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin (north), where he is still admitted.. The little one is accompanied by his aunt Aya after he lost his parents, his little brother and his grandparents, of Israeli origin, in the accident, among the 14 fatalities.

The disaster occurred when the cable car cabin fell into the void between the alpine mountain of Mottarone and the town of Stresa (north), causing the death of 14 of the 15 people traveling inside.. Eitan was seriously injured and orphaned..

In recent days he had begun to eat soft food in the Intensive Care Unit, but he has remained in it until Tuesday as a precaution and this afternoon he went to the plant for recovery, local media reports. The little boy, who lived with his family in the Italian city of Pavia (north), does not remember the accident and has asked for his parents, according to the same sources..

At the same time, Italy is closely following the evolution of this case, which shocked public opinion. The three defendants in the fall of a cable car left the prison where they were on a precautionary basis on Saturday night, after answering an interrogation.

The owner of the Ferrovie del Mottarone company, which manages the cable car, Luigi Nerini, as well as the director of the infrastructure, Enrico Perocchio, were released, although they remain on the list of those investigated..

The head of cable car operations, Gabriele Tadini, was placed under house arrest, after admitting that he deactivated the braking system, which caused the fall.

The three people in charge of the facility remain accused of the crimes of intentional multiple homicide, disaster due to negligence and removal of tools to avoid work accidents..

Tadini has acknowledged that he deactivated a part of the braking system, according to him to speed up the movement of the cable car, which allegedly caused the cabin to fall into the void when the cable broke.