Ponte di Genova, prosecutor: “Castellucci was the father of the Autostrade”. For the prosecution he was aware of Morandi’s conditions

Genoa – The then managing director Giovanni Catellucci “was a master father within Autostrade. He took care of everything in detail, including the safety of the Polcevera viaduct. was aware of the state of the work“. This is what the public prosecutor Massimo Terrile said who together with his colleague Walter Cotugno is illustrating, in the preliminary hearing, the reasons why he will ask for the indictment of the 59 defendants, in addition to the two companies Aspi and Spea, for the collapse of the Morandi bridge (14 August 2018, 43 deaths).

The prosecutor also read some wiretapping including one by Gianni Mion, then CEO of Edizione Holding, which controls Atlantia. In the phone call, the manager defines Castellucci as a “frenzied centralizer”. The prosecutor will continue to speak tomorrow and Thursday. Next week, instead, colleague Cotugno will start and will focus on the part of the fakes. According to what was reconstructed by the financial police the then managers did not intervene to avoid excessive costs and guarantee greater dividends to shareholders. In subsequent hearings, the civil parties, the defenders of the civilian responsible and finally the lawyers of the accused will speak.