TESTIMONY
Two years ago to the day, 43 people were killed in the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa. While Italy commemorates Friday the second anniversary of this tragedy, the father of one of the victim testifies at the microphone of Europe 1. Two years after the death of his daughter, this one has relearned to live, and says nothing wait for trial.
"Continue what I think my daughter would have liked me to do"
"At a given moment, there is no need of these moments to think about it", expresses the father of one of the victims of the collapse of the Morandi bridge, referring to the commemorations organized on Friday in memory of the victims who perished in the accident. "We cannot say that life stops because a person dies, life always goes on", he continues, optimistic and resolutely convinced to have to do with his own life what his daughter would have liked it to be. . "I resumed an activity that I had stopped following cancer. It allows me to continue what I think my daughter would have liked me to do," he said, calling this momentum of projection, of "resilience by report to this death ".
Four French people, including her daughter, perished in the collapse. The four bodies were found in the same car in the rubble of the disaster.
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"I don't necessarily ask for heads, I'm not interested"
According to an article published in early July in the Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore , an economic reference, the investigation into the Genoa Bridge disaster should be completed by the end of the year, paving the way for a trial in 2021. Some 74 people are targeted by the investigation. Among them, the company Autostrade per l'Italia (Aspi), manager of the viaduct and property of the Atlantia motorway group itself belonging to the Benetton family, which allegedly neglected the maintenance and safety of the bridge. From this trial, "I do not expect much", says the bereaved father interviewed by Europe 1. "I do not necessarily ask for heads, that does not interest me", he continues, affirming to be more interested in the never again such an accident to happen in Italy. "Accidents are always almost nothing, it's just a few seconds ...", he concludes. "That day, it fell on my daughter, and the four people in this car".