Euro News Source
No Result
View All Result
Friday, June 24, 2022
  • Login
  • Home
  • Latest News
    • All Europe
    • United Kingdom
      • England
      • Ireland
      • Scotland
      • Wales
    • France
    • Germany
    • Italy
    • Spain
    • Austria
    • Belgium
    • Netherlands
    • Switzerland
  • Economics
  • Politics
  • Health
  • Sports
  • Videosnew
Subscribe
Euro News Source
  • Home
  • Latest News
    • All Europe
    • United Kingdom
      • England
      • Ireland
      • Scotland
      • Wales
    • France
    • Germany
    • Italy
    • Spain
    • Austria
    • Belgium
    • Netherlands
    • Switzerland
  • Economics
  • Politics
  • Health
  • Sports
  • Videosnew
No Result
View All Result
Euro News Source
No Result
View All Result
Home News Italy

Italy orders 59 people to stand trial for Genoa bridge collapse

by Francesco Mazzagatti
April 7, 2022
in Italy
A A
0
152
SHARES
1.9k
VIEWS
FacebookTwitterLinkedin

GENOA, Italy (Reuters) -An Italian judge on Thursday ordered 59 people, including former Atlantia CEO Giovanni Castellucci, to stand trial over the deadly collapse of a bridge in Genoa four years ago, judicial sources told Reuters.

FILE PHOTO: Autostrade per l’Italia Chief Executive Giovanni Castellucci gestures during a news conference about the collapsed Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Italy August 18, 2018. REUTERS/Massimo Pinca/File Photo

The trial will start in Genoa on July 7, the sources added.

The road bridge, operated by Atlantia’s motorway unit Autostrade per l’Italia, collapsed in the port city on Aug. 14, 2018, killing 43 people and laying bare the dire state of Italy’s crumbling infrastructure.

Paola Vicini, the mother of one of the victims, wept outside the court house on Thursday.

“To the other victims’ families, I say have strength and courage, and we will get justice,” she said.

Judge Paola Faggioni, at the end of a closed-door preliminary hearing that began last October, also accepted the settlement proposed by Autostrade and its sister company SPEA to close the case.

Autostrade had offered to pay 1 million euros ($1.1 million) as a settlement and 26 million euros in compensation to the Italian state for the case, while SPEA had proposed to pay 810,000 euros to settle.

Last June, Italian prosecutors had asked for Autostrade, SPEA and 59 individuals to be sent to trial but the payments mean the companies will not be involved any more.

The individuals, Autostrade and SPEA have maintained their innocence over the bridge collapse. The settlement does not involve any recognition of wrongdoing on the part of the two companies.

Giovanni Paolo Accinni, a lawyer for Castellucci, said on Thursday that the accusations against his client would “fall away like an autumn leaf”.

The collapse caused a dispute between Atlantia and the government that ended last June with the sale of Atlantia’s controlling stake in Autostrade to state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and investment partners.

In a document on the probe’s findings seen by Reuters, prosecutors said last year that the collapse was triggered by the rupture of the load-bearing cables inside the stay of the bridge’s ninth pillar, which were eaten away by a highly corrosive atmosphere over the 51 years of the bridge’s life.

Managers at Atlantia units Autostrade and SPEA allegedly avoided proper checks of the state of the infrastructure and did not correct serious issues that started to emerge only a few years after the viaduct had opened in 1967, the document said.

($1 = 0.9163 euros)

Reporting by Emilio Parodi, editing by Maria Pia Quaglia and Keith Weir

Source: Reuters

Tags: Company NewsCrime / Law / JusticeDisasters / AccidentsEuro ZoneEuropeGeneral NewsHighways & Rail Tracks (NEC) (TRBC level 5)Highways & Rail Tracks (TRBC level 4)Industrials (TRBC level 1)ItalyJudicial Process / Court Cases / Court DecisionsMOTORWAYTransport Infrastructure (TRBC level 3)Transportation (TRBC level 2)trialUSWestern Europe

Related Posts

Italy

Five countries seek to delay EU fossil fuel car phase-out

June 24, 2022
Italy

Eni postpones IPO of energy transition unit due to market conditions

June 23, 2022
Italy

Apple and Android phones hacked by Italian spyware, Google says

June 23, 2022
Italy

Dire Italian drought worsening, breaking records – water authority

June 23, 2022
Italy

Italy’s Monte dei Paschi seeks 2.5 billion euros for latest relaunch plan

June 23, 2022
Italy

Italy’s De Nora family to hold controlling stake in group after IPO

June 23, 2022
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest

Woman livestreams fatal stabbing of half-sister

October 25, 2021

Prison sentences for protestors who pray outside abortion clinics in Spain

February 4, 2022

Investigation opened into porn video recorded on altar of Flemish church

November 3, 2021

Irish couple, 23 and 26, ‘carry out vicious knife attack in Sydney’

October 14, 2021
Freedom Day

Freedom Day

0
Fire Accident

Fire Accident In Iraq

0
Scotland

Advice from the Scotland Prime Minister

0
Brexiteers

Brexiteers Should Thank The EU

0

Women’s PGA Championship 2022: In Gee Chun retains direct as Lexi Thompson and Lydia Ko make a shift at Congressional

June 24, 2022

Travelers Championship 2022: Rory McIlroy makes quadruple bogey as he drops off leader Xander Schauffele

June 24, 2022

Farmer on trial for wife’s murder claimed serial killer Fred West was powering her dying

June 24, 2022

England 5-1 Netherlands: Lionesses occur from at the rear of for impressive win as Bronze, Mead, Toone and Hemp rating

June 24, 2022

Recent Posts

Women’s PGA Championship 2022: In Gee Chun retains direct as Lexi Thompson and Lydia Ko make a shift at Congressional

June 24, 2022

Travelers Championship 2022: Rory McIlroy makes quadruple bogey as he drops off leader Xander Schauffele

June 24, 2022

Farmer on trial for wife’s murder claimed serial killer Fred West was powering her dying

June 24, 2022

England 5-1 Netherlands: Lionesses occur from at the rear of for impressive win as Bronze, Mead, Toone and Hemp rating

June 24, 2022

‘I hope you are screaming at the screen’ – Grossman wins women’s boulder at Climbing Planet Cup

June 24, 2022

Woman gives birth on Spanish metro with help of staff and a passenger

June 24, 2022

Recent Posts

  • Women’s PGA Championship 2022: In Gee Chun retains direct as Lexi Thompson and Lydia Ko make a shift at Congressional
  • Travelers Championship 2022: Rory McIlroy makes quadruple bogey as he drops off leader Xander Schauffele
  • Farmer on trial for wife’s murder claimed serial killer Fred West was powering her dying
  • England 5-1 Netherlands: Lionesses occur from at the rear of for impressive win as Bronze, Mead, Toone and Hemp rating
  • ‘I hope you are screaming at the screen’ – Grossman wins women’s boulder at Climbing Planet Cup

Categories

  • Austria
  • Bahamas
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Breaking News
  • Brexiteers
  • Business
  • China
  • COVID Cases
  • Covid-19
  • Cyber security
  • Debt
  • Economics
  • Energy
  • England
  • Fashion
  • Fire Accident
  • France
  • Freedom Day
  • Germany
  • Health
  • Human Launch
  • Humanitarian
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • News
  • Norway
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Refugees
  • Russia
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Science
  • Scotland
  • Scotland
  • Spain
  • Spanish-Flu
  • Sports
  • Switzerland
  • Travel
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • Videos
  • Wales
  • Zambia

Site Navigation

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Guest Post
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Contact Us
Euro News Source

Euro News Source is one of the best sources of European News. We provide the latest news from the European Union and its member states, local and international political, economic and sports news. Follow us to receive all news from around the European Union.

© 2021 Euro News Source.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Latest News
    • All Europe
    • United Kingdom
      • England
      • Ireland
      • Scotland
      • Wales
    • France
    • Germany
    • Italy
    • Spain
    • Austria
    • Belgium
    • Netherlands
    • Switzerland
  • Economics
  • Politics
  • Health
  • Sports
  • Videos

© 2021 Euro News Source.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Are you sure want to unlock this post?
Unlock left : 0
Are you sure want to cancel subscription?