(ANSA) - GENOA, OCTOBER 20 - The Ministry of Sustainable Emotional Infrastructures could be called as civil responsible, and therefore to pay the damages, in the trial for the collapse of the Rapallo dam during the storm of 30 October 2018 which caused the shipwreck of 225 boats of luxury including Pier Silvio Berlusconi's yacht. The civil parties asked for it in the first hearing of the trial started today and which sees two defendants for culpable disaster and shipwreck the designer of the structure, Ernesto La Barbera (defended by lawyers Simone Vernazza and Daniela Adamo) and the manager of the civil genius Alessandro Pentimalli (lawyer Claudio Zadra).
According to the prosecution, the reinforcement works to which the dam had been subjected shortly before the storm would have had defects in the design and there would have been no technical requirements and supervision by the civil engineering department.
A second investigation was then born on the disposal of crimes and waste which had also led to precautionary measures against the top management of the company that dealt with the marina and an entrepreneur linked to Camorra clans. Ilpm Andrea Ranalli requested and obtained the indictment for 14 people (defended among others by the lawyers GiuseppeSciacchitano, Giulia Liberti, Stefano Savi, Mario Scopesi, Silvia Morini and Cesare Manzitti), including the then director of Porto Carlo Riva Spa Marina Scarpino , ended up with the family, and the then president Andrea Dall'Asta, as well as five companies for administrative liability, including the Carlo Riva port. According to what was reconstructed by the carabinieri, Scarpino had turned to Pasquale Capuano, an arrested businessman from Campania who prided himself on being contiguous to the Casalesi clan.For the investigators, waste management had had low costs because in total disregard of safety and environmental regulations, without skills and authorizations. In the trial six civil parties, assisted by the lawyers Giulia Polese, Giuseppe Giacomini, Luca Giorgianni. (HANDLE).