The new appraisal ordered by the judges on cyclone Cleopatra was examined today in the Court of Appeal in Sassari as part of the second degree trial for the death of six people, victims of the flood that hit Olbia on November 18, 2013.

The defendants are the then mayor Gianni Giovannelli, and the managers of the Gallura municipality Gabriella Palermo, Antonello Zanda, Giuseppe Budroni. All were acquitted in the first instance of the charges of multiple manslaughter and negligent disaster .

The Genoese engineers Luca Ferrari, Marina Morando and Luca Molina write in the new report further confirmations to what was contained in the first one which had been signed by the geologist Alfonso Bellini but which had then been archived as the scholar, for health reasons, had not been able to complete the exhibition in the classroom.

In the 84 pages of their report, the experts answered 10 questions, establishing that the flood of nine years ago cannot be classified as an exceptional and unpredictable event. "Meteorological events such as that of November 18, 2013 are undoubtedly very particular and can occur when certain factors such as those described in the previous chapter occur at the same time - reads the document -. Such circumstances may appear exceptional or extraordinary for a given place but in an area as large as the Mediterranean one they are indeed typical events of the autumn period, with very intense rainfall which tends to be higher than the norm in the affected region and which are often associated with important floods and landslides with a dramatic impact on lives and human works ".

It also highlighted how the urban transformations, the lack of maintenance of the river and road works, and the "Municipal civil protection plan inadequate to deal with the event" contributed to both the occurrence of the disaster and the death of the six victims.

(Unioneonline / ss)

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