Italian court, Morandi bridge
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A court in the northern Italian city of Genoa on Thursday sentenced former motorway operator chief Giovanni Castellucci to 12 years in prison over the 2018 collapse of the Morandi bridge, which
Family members of the 43 people killed in the 2018 Genoa bridge collapse are expected in court for verdicts in the trial of 57 defendants.
The crowded courtroom was packed with relatives of those who plunged to their deaths when the span — part of a key highway connecting France and Italy — gave way in torrential rain in 2018.
A court has sentenced the former head of Italian motorway operator Autostrade to 12 years in prison for his role in a bridge collapse near the city of Genoa in 2018 that killed 43 people.
