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court in the Italian city of L'Aquila has handed down verdicts to six
scientists and one government official charged with manslaughter for
failing to give sufficient warning of a fatal earthquake that hit in 2009. The case was built around a meeting the seven defendants, all
members of a commission on natural disasters, held in the city of
LAquila on March 31, 2009, in which they told residents there was no
cause for concern after a series of minor shocks had rocked the city in
the preceding six months. It took Judge Marco Billi slightly more than four hours to reach the
verdict. The seven all members of the National Commission for the Forecast
and Prevention of Major Risks were judged to have provided
"inexact, incomplete and contradictory" information about the danger
of the tremors felt ahead of 6 April 2009 quake, Italian media report. Less that a week later, a 6.3-magnitude quake reduced most of the
medieval city to rubble, leaving 309 people dead and more than
60,000 homeless. Scientists worldwide had slammed the trial as ridiculous, saying that
science has no way to predict quakes. More than 5,000 scientists signed
an open letter to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in support of the
defendants.
www.rt.com/news/italy-scientists-earthquake-jail-972/
scientists and one government official charged with manslaughter for
failing to give sufficient warning of a fatal earthquake that hit in 2009. The case was built around a meeting the seven defendants, all
members of a commission on natural disasters, held in the city of
LAquila on March 31, 2009, in which they told residents there was no
cause for concern after a series of minor shocks had rocked the city in
the preceding six months. It took Judge Marco Billi slightly more than four hours to reach the
verdict. The seven all members of the National Commission for the Forecast
and Prevention of Major Risks were judged to have provided
"inexact, incomplete and contradictory" information about the danger
of the tremors felt ahead of 6 April 2009 quake, Italian media report. Less that a week later, a 6.3-magnitude quake reduced most of the
medieval city to rubble, leaving 309 people dead and more than
60,000 homeless. Scientists worldwide had slammed the trial as ridiculous, saying that
science has no way to predict quakes. More than 5,000 scientists signed
an open letter to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in support of the
defendants.
www.rt.com/news/italy-scientists-earthquake-jail-972/
