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Ex-CEO Gets 12 Years in Bridge Collapse That Killed 43
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Key Points:
- An Italian court convicted the former CEO of Italy's main highway operator, Giovanni Castellucci, and 31 others for the 2018 Genoa bridge collapse that killed 43 people, with Castellucci receiving a 12-year prison sentence.
- The disaster exposed serious maintenance failures, with prosecutors citing negligence, aggravated manslaughter, and vehicular homicide due to ignored warnings and postponed repairs on the bridge.
- The court found the collapse was foreseeable and preventable, attributing it to defects in the bridge's stay cables, while defense lawyers argued it was caused by a design flaw.
- Other key convictions included Autostrade's former head of maintenance, Michele Donferri Mitelli, sentenced to 11 years, and the former CEO of SPEA engineering, Antonino Galatà, sentenced to five and a half years.
- Families of the victims expressed satisfaction with the verdicts, seeing them as acknowledgment of serious management failures that led to the tragedy.
