An Italian court has delivered verdicts against 32 defendants for their roles in the catastrophic 2018 Morandi Bridge collapse in Genoa, a disaster that claimed 43 lives. Among those convicted, former Autostrade per l’Italia chief executive Giovanni Castellucci received a 12-year prison sentence after being found guilty of vehicular homicide and criminal negligence. The ruling also held accountable the former head of Spea Engineering, the firm responsible for overseeing the bridge’s maintenance, along with several officials from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. The landmark judgment marks a pivotal moment in Italy’s long-running reckoning with the systemic failures that led to one of the country’s deadliest structural failures in modern history.
