Former head of Italy's motorway operator Giovanni Castellucci has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the collapse of Genoa's Morandi bridge in August 2018. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing BBC News.
The verdict was read out in a Genoa court by Judge Paolo Lepri. Castellucci was handed a 12-year term, several years less than prosecutors had asked for. He is already serving a six-year jail term for a 2013 road disaster.
Forty-three people died when the motorway bridge came down in a rain storm at the height of the holiday season, sending cars and lorries plummeting to the ground. Castellucci was one of 57 defendants on trial in Genoa. Another top motorway official, Michele Donferri Mitelli, was given 11 years in jail.
Emmanuel Diaz, whose brother Henry died in the bridge collapse, told Italian TV he was "very satisfied" with the verdict.