Former boss of Italian motorways sentenced to 12 years over Genoa bridge tragedy

The former head of Italy's motorway operator has been sentenced to twelve years in prison over the 2018 collapse of a bridge in Genoa that killed forty-three people. The Guardian reports that Giovanni Castellucci, who once ran Autostrade per l'Italia, received the highest sentence in the case, handed down in a hushed courtroom on Thursday. He was among thirty-two people convicted over the disaster, when a section of the Morandi Bridge gave way and sent vehicles plunging to the ground below.

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