Railway drama in Florence: Ex-manager convicted of fatal explosion!

Railway drama in Florence: Ex-manager convicted of fatal explosion!

In a dramatic process of appeal that rejects the controversy of the devastating train accident of Viareggio, the Supreme Court has confirmed the responsibility of leading managers, including the former railway chief Mauro Moretti. This decision follows the serious misfortune, which happened on June 29, 2009 near the Viareggio train station, when a freight train derailed and exploded with liquid gas filled with liquid gas. The explosion led to a devastating major fire, which not only demanded numerous human lives, but also caused severe destruction in the city center and had around 1,000 people evacuated. The causes of the accident could be due to a tear on a bike, such as the Kleine Zeitung reported.

As part of the procedure, several managers, including Austrian citizens and German railway officials, were convicted of negligent killing and the triggering of a fire disease. The condemn was the managing director of GATX Rail Austria GmbH, which was punished at five years and four months in prison. The managers had to answer for violations of security regulations and the neglect of their obligations. Moretti himself, as a former head of the Italian State Railways, received five years in prison. The resumption of the procedure aims to check the punitive circumstances that have been granted some accused, so that the court is now also putting the penalties imposed.

The focus is on the parallel topic around the Steinhoff International Holdings, where the last judgment against the former board was made. The conviction for a prison sentence shows how far -reaching the criminal consequences in the area of management can be. Here, too, it becomes clear that those responsible in management positions do not get away if there are serious violations of the law, such as Manager Magazin