Autostrade per l’Italia has asked the Genoa prosecutor’s office to negotiate as part of the investigation into the collapse of the Morandi bridge (14 August 2028, 43 victims). The company itself communicates it. Aspi is registered in the register of suspects pursuant to Legislative Decree 231, that is, due to the administrative responsibility of the entity. The Prosecutor gave a favorable opinion.
The note
“With reference to the criminal proceedings relating to the collapse of a section of the Polcevera Viaduct, the company, involved pursuant to Legislative Decree 231, presented the request for access to the alternative rite of the plea deal to the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Genoa, obtaining the consent of the Public Prosecutors “reads a note. He concludes: “Autostrade per l’Italia is fully aware that the tragedy of 14 August 2018 with its immeasurable burden of pain and suffering that has also affected the company and all its employees will never be forgotten”.
The lawyer of the former CEO of Autostrade, Castellucci
“In the preliminary hearing the prosecution went on for eleven hearings, concentrating the process on the hypotheses of responsibility and on individual guilt profiles, without however addressing the central theme, what occupies the mind of each of us and that is the actual causes of the collapse, causes that were the subject of two expert reports resulting from the evidentiary incident ». This was stated by Guido Carlo Alleva, lawyer of the former CEO of Autostrade and Atlantia Giovanni Castellucci, who spoke today at the Genoa court in the preliminary hearing of the trial for the collapse of Ponte Morandi (14 August 2018, 43 victims). 59 people are accused, in addition to the two companies Aspi and Spea.
«I found this aspect singular – continues Alleva – and even more singular that the power of attorney, in order to decline hypotheses of individual responsibility of my client, offered a distorted, unrealistic representation of it, not linked to the facts as they actually took place. So the task of the defense has been and will be to contrast reality, the lucid, objective interpretation of the facts and, at the same time, help the problems of internal justice in the trial which are the only possible guarantee of preservation of the rule of law ”.
According to the indictment, everyone knew that the bridge was sick but no one did anything to reduce costs, in order to guarantee greater dividends to the shareholders. The hearing will continue in the afternoon. In the next few days there will be replies from prosecutors and then the judge will decide on the indictment.
