Bus massacre in Avellino, Castellucci was set up in prison

The former CEO of ASPI, Giovanni Castellucciwas set up in prison after the definitively sentenced to 6 years for the massacre of the bus 28 July 2013 in Irpinia. 40 people died in the accident on board the bus precipitated from Aqualonga viaduct to Monteforte Irpino in the province of Avellino. Castellucci is also attributed to Genoa in the trial for the massacre of Morandi bridge.

On the day the prison order was notified by the Naples Public Prosecutor’s Office, the owner of the precipitated bus was also established, Gennaro Lmetta. « I go to constitute in prison where for this affair I enter the second time as an innocent – he said -. This time, however, I go there with all the evidence in my favor for which I will fight to the end to demonstrate the serious injustice I am suffering ». Lametta is convinced that the trial would show that the responsibility of the accident would have been all of motorways and the failure to maintain. « The bus rushed due to thirty years of non -maintenance of New Jersey On the part of Autostrade – he said – and the cause of the detachment of the transmission was not my neglect but a Overseater of the pins caused by a human error certainly not mine, but of the mechanics of the authorized workshop where I brought the bus before the tragic accident ». The Cassation, however, did not see it in this way, also evaluating the state of the bus.

All convictions

The judges of the fourth section issued the sentence for the massacre of 28 July 2013 thus confirming the appeal verdict for the former CEO of ASPI. The other sentences are: six years for the general manager of the time, Riccardo Mollo and for the employees of ASPI Massimo Giulio Fornaci and Marco Perna. Five years for the manager of ASPI Nicola Spadavecchia and for the director of Tronco Paolo Berti. Three years for Gianluca De FranceschiManager ASPI and for the two employees Gianni Marrone and Bruno Gerardi. Nine years for the owner of the bus, Gennaro Lmettaand four years for the then employee of the civil engine of Naples Antonietta Ceriola.

The guardrail and the bus

The reasons for today’s sentence are not yet known, but probably The judges considered the state of the guardrails positioned on the viaduct where the accident occurred: They should have retained the vehicle preventing it from ending up in the escarpment. The top of ASPI were held responsible. But The bus had a false revision certificate: revision that was not made since 2011 and was without the minimum requirements to circulate: hence the 9 -year sentence for the owner of the bus and 4 years for the then employee of the civil engine.

The lawyers of Castellucci and Lmetta

«Decisions are also respected when they are incomprehensible. We will use all the institutes that the law allows that its innocence can be recognized « , the defenders of the former CEO CEO of ASPI, the lawyers Paola Severino and Filippo Dinacci have affirmed in a note. «In the necessary respect that must be paid to the families of the victims, we cannot fail to express Bitterness for the condemnation of Gennaro Lamettawhich we consider innocent and that pays the faults of deviated sectors of the engine And of those who have not maintained that stretch of highway for thirty years, losing now, in addition to his brother (who was driving the vehicle, editor’s note), also freedom, « Lametta’s lawyers, Sergio Pisani and Leopoldo Perone said, comment on the sentence.

The family members of the victims of the Morandi bridge

For the Memo Morandi Ponte Recontro Committee « with the confirmation of the convictions to Castellucci and Berti justice has brought out an ineffective maintenance system, spoiled by enormous deficiencies, incompetence, mediocrity All in order to decrease the expenses in defiance of human lives», Writes Egle Postetti, president of the Committee of the victims of the disaster that took place on 14 August 2018. Castellucci is also charged for the disaster of the Morandi.

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