After a 3-year stop due to the Covid emergency and the absence of a courtroom in the courthouse capable of holding 59 defendants, the trial of the maxi trial on the flood officially opened in Nuoro , which in November 2013, with the passage of the Cleopratra cyclone, caused death and destruction in a large part of Sardinia.
The proceeding resumed with the new monocratic judge Elena Meloni, replacing her colleague Giorgio Cannas transferred to another location.
Among the accused administrators and managers of public bodies, local representatives of various companies, including the former president of the Province of Nuoro Roberto Deriu, the then commander of the Forestry Corps Gavino Diana and the former director of the same body, Carlo Masnata.
They are accused in various capacities of manslaughter, culpable disaster and culpable injuries for the failure of the road surface on which the policeman Luca Tanzi died, for the flooding of the Maccheronis dam in Torpé, which trapped the elderly Maria Frigiolini in the house, killing her, and for the collapse of the bridge over the Rio Sologo in Galtellì. Three strands of investigation then merged into a single process.
For some crimes there is the risk of statute of limitations, but not for culpable disaster which takes longer.
No new investigative activity was carried out: he therefore recovered from the renewal of the hearing initiated by the previous judge. All the documents already entered in the file were declared usable and the requests for admission of evidence were renewed and re-accepted.
The trial was adjourned to 5 and 6 June for the cross-examination of the prosecutor Ilaria Bradamonte, the engineers Sante Mazzacane, Marco Bruni and Alberto Bizzari and the geologist Bruno Grego. All the prosecution witnesses had already been heard in the courtroom before the suspension of the proceedings.
(Unioneonline)
