Not an overturning of the first degree sentence, contested by the victims' families, but there are changes in the sentences on appeal for the tragedy of the Rigopiano hotel, which occurred on January 18, 2017 and cost the lives of 29 people. The former prefect of Pescara Francesco Provolo, acquitted in the first trial, was sentenced to one year and eight months. The decision of the L'Aquila judges came after 5 hours of deliberation.
Leonardo Bianco, director of the Pescara prefecture, and Enrico Colangeli, the municipal technician who issued the permit for the renovation of the hotel, were also convicted. The first degree convictions were confirmed for the mayor of Farindola Ilario Lacchetta, two provincial officials, Mauro Di Blasio and Paolo D'Incecco, responsible for traffic and street cleaning, Bruno Di Tommaso, hotel manager, deceased and convicted of forgery, an extinct crime and Giuseppe Gatto , consultant who made the technical report on the resort destroyed by an avalanche on the slopes of the Pescara side of Gran Sasso.
The acquittal for the former president of the province of Pescara, Antonio Di Marco, has been confirmed, like others in the first degree trial, where in total there were 25 out of 30 defendants. Now there are 22 acquittals.
«A sentence that repays, albeit in part, the disappointment of the first instance one. Of course, there are no winners or losers, but the light of truth is visible,” he said Alexander by Michelangelobrother of the policeman Dino Di Michelangelo who died on January 18, 2017, according to what Repubblica reports.
Source: Vanity Fair
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