Gianni Mion, former chief executive of the Benetton family's holding company, Edizione, acknowledged on Monday that as early as 2010, eight years before the deadly collapse of the Genoa bridge, the group knew there was a risk. "It turned out that the bridge had an original design flaw, causing the puzzle of technicians as to its ability to stand," admitted Mion.
On 14 August 2018, in pouring rain, the Morandi motorway bridge, a vital axis for local journeys and traffic between Italy and France, collapsed, plunging dozens of vehicles and their passengers into the void and killing 43 people.