Genoa Bridge: Legal Castellucci and others will reject the judge – Liguria
He signed measures for the same suspects in the investigation of barriers
(ANSA) – GENOA, 12 OCT – The lawyers of the former director of Aspi Giovanni Castellucci and other defendants will ask for the refusal of the judge for the preliminary hearing Paola Faggioni. The lawyers present the application to the court of appeal on Friday at the opening of the preliminary hearing for the collapse of the Morandi bridge (14 August 2018, 43 dead). According to the lawyers, the judge cannot decide whether or not to postpone the defendants given that in 2019 he had signed the order of precautionary measures for Castellucci and others under investigation as part of the investigation into dangerous sound-absorbing barriers.
Judge Faggioni supports the lawyers, in that provision he also expressed an assessment of the overall picture that emerged from the investigations, also making considerations on the facts relating to the main investigation. The magistrate will be able to go ahead with the hearings until the court of appeal decides whether or not to host the objection. In case of acceptance, the gup will have to be changed, but the deeds without proof value would remain valid. After the collapse, the financial police had also initiated investigations into the false reports on the state of health of the Ligurian viaducts, on the dangerous sound-absorbing barriers and on the tunnels: almost always the same people were entered in the register of suspects, that is the former leaders of Aspi and Spea, the latter the subsidiary that dealt with maintenance and inspections. The preliminary hearing on the collapse will begin on Friday, in the tensile structure inside the court to comply with anti-contagion regulations. 59 persons are accused in addition to the two companies Aspi and Spea. The charges, for various reasons, are of willful collapse, attack on transport safety, road homicide, multiple manslaughter, forgery, omission of official acts and willful removal of safety devices in the workplace. According to the prosecutor, then Autostrade leaders could save on maintenance to obtain greater profits, falsifying reports on the health of the viaduct. (ANSA).
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