Families of the victims are calling for answers after so many years of uncertainty.<\/p>\n
Egle Possetti, who also represents the victims’ families committee, says she and other relatives of the deceased hope responsibility will be clearly pinned down. <\/p>\n
“For so many years, lawyers told us that what happened was no-one’s fault, that it was just an accident. But this decision could be symbolically so important. Finding who is responsible could give us some sort of peace and a sense of justice.”<\/p>\n
On the eve of the verdict, Autostrade per l’Italia issued its first apology over the disaster, in an open letter from chief executive Arrigo Giana published in two Italian newspapers.<\/p>\n
Giana, who took over last year, wrote that he had long wondered why the company never apologised at the time, calling it a “further, incomprehensible wound” for a community already in shock.<\/p>\n
He said the current company operates under different ownership and management, and that making amends now, even if it cannot undo the families’ pain, was a moral duty. Aspi and Spea are no longer defendants in the criminal case, having reached a settlement to pay around \u20ac30m (\u00a325m) in damages.<\/p>\n
The old viaduct’s remains were blown up in early 2019 with two explosions.<\/p>\n
A new viaduct, designed by Genoa-born architect Renzo Piano, opened just 18 months later, in August 2020. <\/p>\n
Known as the Genoa San Giorgio Bridge, its sail-like white pillars are meant to evoke the city’s maritime history.<\/p>\n
The victims’ families committee is due to hold a press conference in Genoa on Thursday evening, once the verdict has been delivered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Families of the victims are calling for answers after so many years of uncertainty. Egle Possetti, who also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-694295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}