(ANSA) - GENOA, APRIL 23 - The Morandi bridge "was immediately banned from traffic". This is what emerges from the investigation into the collapse of the motorway viaduct (14 August 2018, 43 victims) closed yesterday by the Genoa prosecutor's office. To write it are the public ministries based on an informal communication by Antonio Brencich, university professor and external member of the Technical Committee who, in February 2018, had examined the reinforcement project of piles 9 (the collapsed one) and 10.
Brencich, write the prosecutors, describes to the members of the The deterioration of the viaduct as "a state of decay ...
impressive, even with the breaking of some metal cables of the stays "and again, a" general state of deterioration of the concrete and of the reinforcement of the deck "," a very bad state of conservation "and" an incredible bad performance of the building ". , should have been immediately communicated to the public surveillance bodies "so that that situation of evident risk was made public and vehicular transit was immediately forbidden." Even the managers of the Ministry of Infrastructure, for their part, would have omitted any kind of surveillance. "They did not proceed - the prosecutors write - to inspections and direct controls but neither did they ask the concessionaire company for information and documentation concerning the works carried out and the conditions of the work ". As a consequence" of this total ignorance - we read in the papers - voluntarily prosecuted, of the conditions of the the most important, complex and fragile infrastructure of the entire motorway network, they failed to ensure that systematic violations of the law were detected and challenged against the company ". (ANSA).they omitted to make sure that the systematic violations of the law were detected and challenged to the company ". (ANSA).they omitted to make sure that the systematic violations of the law were detected and challenged to the company ". (ANSA).