Italian officials handed jail terms for Genoa bridge disaster that killed 43

The former head of Italy’s motorway operator has been given a 12-year prison sentence over the collapse of Genoa’s Morandi bridge in August 2018.

Ex-Autostrade per l’Italia chief Giovanni Castellucci was handed a 12-year term – several years less than prosecutors had asked for.

Forty-three people died when the motorway bridge running through the city came down in a rain storm at the height of the holiday season, sending cars and lorries plummeting to the ground.

Castellucci, who is already serving a six-year jail term for a 2013 road disaster, was one of 57 defendants on trial in Genoa. Another top motorway official, Michele Donferri Mitelli, has been 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.

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