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 director of Italy’s motorway operator has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa in August 2018. Prosecutors had asked for a much longer prison sentence for the former head of Autostrade per l’Italia, Giovanni Castellucci. Forty-three people died when the highway bridge through the
The families of the victims ask for answers after so many years of uncertainty. Egle Possetti, who also represents the committee of victims’ relatives, says she and other relatives of the deceased hope that responsibility will be clearly determined. “For many years, lawyers told us that what happened was no one’s fault, that it was