Massacre of Viareggio, Moretti was sentenced to 7 years – The guardian

All guilty. The former ceo of Fs Mauro Moretti was sentenced to 7 years in prison and seven are the years inflicted to Michele Mario Elia, the former ceo of Rfi. This is the judgment of the first instance for the the massacre of Viareggio on 29 June 2009 that cost the lives of 32 people. Many were the wounded.

The prosecutor had asked for 16 years for Moretti and 15 for Elijah. For all of the defendants for the massacre at the station of Viareggio, the accusations were, in various ways, from the train crash, wrongful death, plural, fire, negligence, and negligent injury.

That day, a goods train carrying lpg exploded in the station of Viareggio, causing the death of 11 people and the next, for burns, other 21. The tragedy just before midnight, when the freight train 50325 Trecate-Gricignano, with his convoy of 14 tank cars containing liquid propane gas, while traveling at approximately 90 miles per hour, derailed for reasons related to the collapse of the cart of the first tank, and he dragged off the rails of the other four wagons.

Only from the first tank, where the tank is perforated by a picket tracking curve positioned along the embankment, poured the gas which, on contact with oxygen and at the first chance of the trigger will fire. The damages were immediate and 11 people died in a few minutes, the funds invested by fire, or overwhelmed by the collapse of buildings; the other two people were cut short by a heart attack, and dozens injured; of them, many severely severely burned, and most died, many even at a distance of several weeks after the accident.

Moretti, according to explain his lawyers, he was acquitted as the managing director of the State Railways, but the judges decided his conviction as a former managing director of Rfi. Explain its legal. Among the corporate defendants fulfilled also the State Railways and Fs Logistica, as they are convicted of Rfi and Trenitalia.

The ruling comes after seven years and seven months after the accident. The panel of judges was chaired by Gerardo Borage and the compound is Nidia Genovese and Valeria Marino. A short round of applause greeted after a few minutes, from reading the judgment.

“I am partial satisfaction for the absolution of Mauro Moretti, in his capacity as administrator of the Fs and of the Railroads of the State,” said attorney Armando D ‘ Apote, legal, both of Moretti’s of Fs, soon after that, he added, to record “how scandalous the result of the process, and I note the result of the populism that oozes from the judgment,” he concluded.

“Disappointment? Of course, hot, convicted to 7 years of age, are less than half of the requests of the Prosecutor, they leave space for disappointment and bitterness. But we must also understand why the judges issued the ruling with these convictions,” said Marco Piangentini, president of the association “Il Mondo che Vorrei”, which brings together the families of the victims of the massacre. For the legal judgment as a whole, “the emergence of the existence of a safety system train that is not working”. “If they declare themselves to be innocent,” he added, Piagentini – they may very well waive the requirement and to prove their innocence in the process.”

“The judgment of Viareggio the screams without the possibility of denial: was sentenced for system of safety of the transport goods in Italy. Viareggio was not an accident but a murder of the State”: is the comment of the parliamentary Committees, the transport of the Chamber of deputies and Senate of the Movement 5 stars. “We have said and reiterated: the whole system is under attack, and today sentenced. The penalties are halved with respect to the requests of the prosecution, but the vertices of the Rfi have been convicted. Now we expect the resignation of Moretti Leonardo, and taking away the immediate and unequivocal with respect to the leaders condemned – asks Diego De Lorenzis, deputy of the M5S in the Transport Committee -. We will not leave never alone the families of the victims, of this “State massacre” – he writes on Facebook senator Sara Paglini, who was in Lucca next to the victims to listen to the reading of the judgment, we will Fight again, because the second degree does not nullify this long struggle. Mauro Moretti, appointed Cavaliere del lavoro by Napolitano a year after that massacre, and later promoted by Renzi at the head of Finmeccanica, the state immediately that they will renounce to the prescription – stresses in a post on Facebook the deputy Alfonso Bonafede, of the Commission for Justice -. A hug goes to all the families of the 32 victims of the massacre who have waited seven years and seven months before I get to today’s ruling. To them that have believed, without if and without but, in justice, the State must give an unambiguous answer: a law that prevents that the crimes for which a process has started will fall in the prescription”.

After the condemnation of Moretti, who today is the executive director of Leonardo, the title of the company of defence in the control of the public has fallen 2.3% in the Bag.