The national railroad of Italy filed a formal complaint with law enforcement authorities in Mid-January alleging power outages that occurred throughout the country that have caused days of train delays are of a suspicious nature.
The outages, that have occurred during peak times on rail lines from of Rome, Milan and other cities “can’t be a coincidence” said Ferrovia dello Stato, which runs the Trenitalia system. It didn’t explicitly allege sabotage but in a statement said, “The type of failures and their frequency are raising more than a few questions.”
Minister for relations with parliament Luca Ciriani acknowledged the outages but maintained the problems weren’t chronic and that the recent delays were not out of the ordinary. Minister Ciriani pledged the government’s commitment to improving the rail service using European Union funds.
Recent chaos on Italy’s rail system has been a headache for Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, with opposition lawmakers saying he is neglecting his job to position him self for other, higher profile ones.