Italian motorway chief sentenced to 12 years for Genoa bridge collapse that killed 43

43 people died when the Morandi bridge collapsed in August 2018, with victims' families waiting nearly eight years for judicial accountability and convictions.

In August 2018, a motorway viaduct in Genoa collapsed in the rain, taking 43 lives with it and opening a wound that courts have only now begun to close. Eight years on, a Genoese tribunal has convicted 32 people — including former Autostrade per l'Italia chief Giovanni Castellucci, sentenced to 12 years — for the negligence that prosecutors say allowed the aging Morandi bridge to deteriorate until it could no longer hold. The verdict arrives not as a final answer but as a first reckoning, one that families of the dead have waited nearly a decade to receive, and one that appeals will continue t

Italian motorway chief sentenced to 12 years for Genoa bridge collapse that killed 43

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