Italy on Monday marked the fifth anniversary of the collapse of Genoa's Morandi Bridge with a minute of silence and demands for justice for the 43 people who died in what authorities say was an example of greed-fueled negligence.
, that he had read some of the documentation from the trial. While he said he didn’t want to prejudge the outcome, he argued the evidence of greed and carelessness was clear.
He added that by next year’s commemorations he hoped that Parliament would approve a law, proposed in the aftermath of the collapse, that considers victims of such negligence in public works equivalent to victims of terrorism or organized crime, in terms of their eligibility to recover financial compensation.
Egle Possetti, a prominent member of the committee of relatives of Morandi victims, told the crowd that the Morandi families trusted in the justice system, but that developments in the trial to date had been disheartening.
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