The former chief executive of Italy’s motorway operator is among 32 people found guilty over the August 2018 collapse of Genoa’s Morandi Bridge in a trial. Giovanni Castellucci, already serving a six-year prison sentence for a 2013 road disaster, received a 12-year sentence for the disaster. Forty-three people died when the highway bridge through the
The former chief executive of Italy’s motorway operator is among 32 people found guilty over the August 2018 collapse of Genoa’s Morandi Bridge in a trial.
Giovanni Castellucci, already serving a six-year prison sentence for a 2013 road disaster, received a 12-year sentence for the disaster.
Forty-three people died when the highway bridge through the city collapsed during a storm in the middle of the Christmas season, sending cars and trucks tumbling to the ground.
Another senior highway official, Michele Donferri Mitelli, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
BBC News journalist Davide Ghiglione explains how the disaster and subsequent criminal trial unfolded.
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