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Italian officials handed jail terms for Genoa bridge disaster that killed 43

The ex-head of Italy's motorway operator Giovanni Castellucci was handed a 12-year term over the 2018 bridge collapse.

Sentences have been delivered in Italy concerning the Genoa bridge disaster that resulted in 43 fatalities. In a Genoa courtroom, Judge Paolo Lepri formally announced the verdict.

Giovanni Castellucci, the former chief of Autostrade per l'Italia, Italy's motorway operator, has been handed a 12-year prison sentence. This term is several years less than what prosecutors had requested. The judgment relates to the August 2018 collapse of Genoa's Morandi bridge.

Forty-three individuals lost their lives when the motorway bridge, which ran

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