The former CEO of Rfi and Fs, Mauro Moretti, and Michele Mario Elia, head of Technical Direction, then to Rfi, were not to blame for the failure to reduce the speed of the freight train which on 29 June 2009 derailed in the Viareggio (Lucca) station causing 32 deaths , numerous injuries and material damage.
Thus the Court of Appeal of Florence in the sentence in the bis trial of 30 June with convictions for disaster, injuries and fire of Moretti at 5 years and of Elia at 4 years 2 months 20 days.
The "precautionary value" of a certain transit speed in the station is not proven "this profile of guilt must therefore be excluded for the accused".