• Genoa, August 14: a year later the city and Italy commemorate the collapse of Ponte Morandi

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14 August 2019 "The demand for justice is not a search for scapegoats or easy solutions to be offered in the course of solving complex questions in a casual way, but a rigorous response to the search for truth". Thus the chief prosecutor of Genoa, Francesco Cozzi.

We evaluate all the hypotheses
"We have examined all the possible and plausible hypotheses with the technical consultants and subjected to the examination of the experts. According to a scale of values, from the most far-fetched to the least implausible. They are all taken into consideration, then the circle tightens. each of these, even on the most unlikely causes ". As for the hypothesis that lightning struck the bridge or that a thirty-ton coil has fallen causing the collapse, Cozzi replied that "we can place them among the less likely hypotheses".

It certainly wasn't fatal
"The only hypothesis I would like to dismiss is that it was a fatality". The Genoa Prosecutor, Francesco Cozzi, says this in an interview with Sky talking about the tragedy of the Morandi bridge. "Certainly it is accidental that the collapse occurred that day at that time and that there was that number of victims - he adds - but it is not true that these works cannot have a degree of security. The Morandi bridge did not make it more to hold ".

Two evidentiary accidents to ascertain causes and responsibilities
"The proceeding - said Cozzi - sees two probative incidents in progress. The first was completed and concerned the conditions of the bridge, of the infrastructure at the time of the collapse. And then the conditions of functionality and maintenance. The second, which is already initiated and expected to be completed by the end of November or December, concerns the causes of the collapse, this does not mean a delay in the process, but if it is an economy in the process, because these evidentiary incidents are a proof that normally should be accepted in the real process in contradiction with the parties, in this case it is anticipated at the time of the investigations, both to ascertain the actual cause of the collapse and also to delimit possible responsibilities ".

No prescription risk
"Genoa unfortunately experienced a season of great disasters due to the most disparate causes. I am talking about the collapse of the pilots' tower, the floods of 2011 and 2014. Almost all these processes have come to an end, at least in the second degree sentence but also in the Cassation "For none of these has the prescription been declared". So the chief prosecutor of Genoa, Francesco Cozzi answering a question about the risk of prescription for the process on the collapse of the Ponte Morandi of Genoa.