ITALY: A court convicted the former chief executive of Italy’s main highway operator and 29 others today in the 2018 Genoa highway bridge collapse that sent vehicles plunging and killed 43 people.

Dozens of family members of the victims packed the courtroom as Chief Judge Paolo Lepri read the verdicts against 57 defendants, including former executives and officials.

The former chief executive of highway operator Autostrade per l’Italia, Giovanni Castellucci, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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