by InTrieste
Italy marks the fifth anniversary of the collapse of the Morandi Bridge today, 14 August, in the north-west city of Genoa.
The names of the 43 victims were projected in Piazza De Ferrari, the city’s main square, and the governor of the Liguria region Giovanni Toti attended a ceremony of commemoration.
Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella, referring to the protracted court trial over the bridge’s fatal collapse, said on Monday: “The passage of time does not mitigate the weight of responsibility for what happened”, stressing that there is a “responsibility to do justice”.
In 2022, 59 people were put on trial, mainly former officials and technicians, for charges ranging from multiple manslaughter to making false statements about the safety of the bridge which had been plagued with structural problems for years.
