the trial of the collapse of the Genoa bridge opens Thursday, July 7

In Italy, no one has forgotten the images of the collapse of the bridge Morandi from Genoa (Italy) on August 14, 2018, which killed 43 people, including five children. Thirty vehicles had crashed 45 meters below. Paolo Robotti lost two family members. He does not hide his bitterness. “It is a tragedy that could have been avoided. We knew that the bridge was in poor condition, and that there were problems“, he regrets.

Thursday, July 7, the trial of the drama will open in Italy. Other indirect victims of the collapse: 600 people who had to be evacuated urgently because they lived in buildings under the motorway building. A retiree who is one of these people and who will be present at the trial, says that concrete regularly fell from the bridge onto the balconies and gardens. “When the bridge collapsed, I thought back to all the meetings we had, all the petitions, all the things that we had yet reported“, laments Mima Certo. Thursday, July 7, officials and technicians from the highway companies that managed the bridge, as well as transport officials, will appear in court.