The former CEO of Aspi and Atlantide Giovanni Castellucci and other 58 defendants will go to trial for the collapse of the Morandi Bridge, which on 14 August 2018 resulted in the death of 43 people.

Prosecutors Massimo Terrile and Walter Cotugno decided this after 11 hearings. The two companies Aspi and Spea (the company that took care of the maintenance) were also indicted during the preliminary hearing. The defendants are the former leaders of Aspi and Spea, the managers of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Superintendency who did not check the company and the state of the works. Tomorrow the lawyers of the civil parties and civilian responsible will begin to speak.

The prosecutors also asked for the releasing of the finds in order to allow the Municipality to continue with the work on the Parco della Memoria, the place designed by architect Stefano Boeri, to remember the victims.

For investigators, the viaduct collapsed due to lack of maintenance, which over the years were postponed several times. According to the indictment, everyone knew that the bridge was damaged but no one did anything to reduce costs, in order to guarantee greater dividends to the shareholders.

The charges, for various reasons, are of multiple manslaughter, road homicide, culpable disaster, attack on transport safety, willful collapse, willful removal of safety devices, forgery, omission of official acts.

(Unioneonline / D)