Italian officials handed jail terms for Genoa bridge disaster that killed 43
The ruling capped a four-year trial with more than 280 hearings and handed the harshest sentence to former CEO Giovanni Castellucci.
- On Thursday, an Italian court convicted former Autostrade CEO Giovanni Castellucci to 12 years in prison for his role in the 2018 Morandi Bridge collapse that killed 43 people, concluding a trial spanning more than 280 hearings.
- Evidence revealed maintenance on two identical pylons starting in 1993 was never extended to the third, indicating warning signs existed for decades despite defense claims that a hidden construction defect caused the collapse.
- Prosecutors argued years of maintenance neglect led to the disaster, demanding combined sentences totaling nearly 400 years for the 57 defendants facing charges including negligent disaster and multiple counts of manslaughter.
- Autostrade and its subsidiary paid roughly 30 million euros in financial penalties, while current CEO Arrigo Giana issued a public apology Thursday, stating the actions of some people left "indelible scars."
- Legal teams for some defendants indicated they would appeal the ruling, while victim representative Michele Matti Altadonna called the verdict an "important step on the path of truth and justice.
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A 200-meter-long section of the motorway bridge in Genoa in northern Italy collapsed in the summer of 2018. Dozens of people died when vehicles plunged to the ground. After a several-year legal process and hundreds of interrogations, 57 people have now been sentenced for the collapse - a total of almost 400 years in prison, reports AP.
When you condemn the innocence, you never do justice. Giovanni Paolo Accinni, lawyer of the former CEO of Autostrade for Italy Giovanni Castellucci, announces battle after the sentence in first degree to 12 years for the massacre of the Morandi bridge. For the defense, the trial would have ended to criminalize the figure of the CEO instead of identifying [...] L'articolo The judgment bridge Morandi, the lawyer of Castellucci: "Condemned an inn…
First judgment eight years after the event (and who knows between what will have a definitive one). The effect of the emotional impact and of the media process. The novelty of admission as a civil part of the committee of the relatives of the victims, despite the compensation with renunciation to constitute in court. And two individual cases in which the condemnation of one seems to contradict that of the other
The collapse of the Morandi Bridge in August 2018 killed 43 people. Eight years later, the Genoa court sentenced 57 defendants, in a mega-trial with 283 hearings.
Thirty-two defendants were sentenced on Thursday, July 16, to prison terms of up to 12 years in the trial of the Morandi bridge disaster in Genoa (northwest Italy), which killed 43 people, the city court announced.
Ex-CEO of Italian highway operator and 31 others convicted in deadly 2018 bridge collapse
An Italian court has convicted the former CEO of Italy's main highway operator and 31 others in the Genoa Morandi bridge collapse in 2018. The disaster killed 43 people and exposed serious maintenance lapses. Giovanni Castellucci, the former chief executive…
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