The trial on the collapse of the Morandi bridge remains in the foreground at the meetings of Autostrade per l'Italia's top management in 2010. Meetings in which, as Gianni Mion, the former number one of Edizione, the holding company of the Benetton family, told yesterday, it emerged that the viaduct had an original design defect and the risk of collapse was not excluded. Collapse that then occurred on August 14, 2018, causing 43 victims.
Mion, a trusted man of the property, then asked which external company was certifying safety. He was told that Autostrade self-certified safety. Mion said he regretted not having done anything, now the doubt remains whether even the former CEO himself can be entered in the register of suspects.
The reactions of the committee in memory of the victims are inevitable. President Egle Possetti said: "I ask how you can keep quiet when you have information of such gravity in your hands."
Even today in the courtroom the questions of the prosecutors focus on some meetings of 2010. To testify Gennarino Tozzi, at the time director of Development of new works of ASPI. During a meeting of the Completion Committee, Tozzi read a document from Spea on the conditions of the Polcevera viaduct. A document that certified that the work was under constant monitoring. Again, according to the inspection activity, there were no structural problems.
Tozzi then spoke of ASPI's abusive approach to Spea, citing in particular two of the main suspects, Donferri Mitelli and Berti. And he said he was upset about the way the subsidiary's employees were internalized. "They brought in - he said - who they liked".