Genoa – “The Ministry of Infrastructures and Anas, public vigilant bodies, did nothing in their power. They did not supervise, they did not make inspections, they did not even set up an office provided for in a 1967 circular ”. That’s what the prosecutor said Massimo Terrile during his discussion in the preliminary hearing for the collapse of the Morandi bridge.
This inertia “allowed Aspi to do what it wanted”. The prosecution also recalled how in 2013 Aspi increased the insurance ceiling only for Morandi with the specification of the “risk of collapse due to delayed maintenance”.
59 people are accused in addition to the two companies. For the prosecution, the leaders knew that the bridge needed reinforcement work but these were postponed to be able to save and guarantee greater dividends to the shareholders. Meanwhile they have been filed the reasons for the decision of the Supreme Court with which the refusal of the judge for the preliminary hearing was rejectedPaola Faggioni made by the lawyers of some defendants.
The lawyers had asked to change judge because Faggioni had signed the order of precautionary measures to which the former Giovanni Castellucci and others under investigation had been subjected to the investigation into dangerous sound-absorbing barriers. The investigating judge, in motivating the measures, had referred to the investigation into the collapse from which the second investigation was born.
For the lawyers, the magistrate, who is now a judge in the preliminary hearing, had already expressed a judgment on the collapse, thus violating the principle of impartiality. For the court of appeal, however, those judgments had been generic. The Ermellini also stressed that the principle of impartiality was not violated since these were different proceedings and the considerations reported are “generic without specific relevance to facts that are the subject of the main proceedings”.
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