Avellino, massacre of the bus in A16: "Paolo Berti lied at the trial to get money and career"

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01 December 2020 Paolo Berti, at the time of the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa, director of Aspi Central Operations, allegedly lied at the trial on the Avellino bus massacre, which took place on 28 July 2013 on the A16 Naples - Canosa.

He allegedly

in exchange for a career spurt and a salary increase of around 400,000 euros.

Paolo Berti's procedural behavior was allegedly required to cover up his superior, Giovanni Castellucci.

The sensational revelation emerges from the

by the Genoa prosecutor's office on the dangerous sound-absorbing barriers that last November 11 led to house arrest as well as Berti also of the former CEO of Aspi and Atlantia, Giovanni Castellucci and his number two, Michele Donferri Mitelli .

Paolo Berti was

by the court of Avellino to five years and 10 months for the massacre of the bus that crashed in 2013 from the "Acqualonga" viaduct of the A16 Napoli-Canosa.

A tragedy that caused the

.

Castellucci, thanks to Berti's testimony, had been acquitted.

The manager, emerges from the

filed at the Review, expected, however, a much lower sentence, so as to ask for probation and avoid prison.

But when the judges read the sentence he was so angry that on the phone he said: "He deserved that I got up one morning and went to Avellino to tell the truth".

From the

Berti makes to his wife, but also to Donferri and other colleagues, we understand that the first salary increase is no longer enough.

The manager also wants to ask that Castellucci not take disciplinary measures.

The

prosecutor

had challenged the sentence last year while the Genoese colleagues had transmitted the key interceptions.