Reuters —
An Italian court on Thursday sentenced former Atlantia CEO Giovanni Castellucci to 12 years in prison over the deadly 2018 collapse of a motorway bridge in the northwestern port city of Genoa.
Atlantia was the controlling shareholder in motorway operator Autostrade per l’Italia at the time of the disaster which killed 43 people when their vehicles plunged from the flyover.
Relatives of the victims packed the court to hear the outcome of a case that has become a search for accountability for the disaster and a symbol of the slow pace of justice in complex Italian criminal proceedings.
Under the Italian legal…