The Naples court of appeal on
Thursday gave Giovanni Castellucci, the former CEO of highways
company ASPI, a six-year prison term over a crash on the A16
highway in 2013 in which 40 people died.
The court found Castellucci guilty of culpable homicide in
relation to the state of safety barriers on the highway at the
time of the July 28, 2013 accident in which a bus plunged off a
viaduct near to the town of Monteforte Irpino, in the province
of Avellino.
The same sentence was given to another former ASPI director,
Riccardo Mollo, and to company employees Massimo Giulio Fornaci
and Marco Perna.
In Italy sentences are not considered definitive until the
appeals process has been exhausted,
Castellucci, who had been acquitted at the first-instance trial,
has also been indicted over the 2018 Morandi bridge disaster in
Genoa in which 43 people died.
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