Genoa bridge: Hopes for new Italy as disaster trial opens

Four years after Genoa's Ponte Morandi motorway bridge collapsed killing 43 people, a long-awaited trial has begun involving key figures responsible for looking after the structure.

Fifty-nine people face a variety of charges including manslaughter and safety failures.

Families of those who died say they are not just hoping for justice.

"A different Italy can come out of this trial," said Egle Possetti, head of the committee for victims of the disaster.

"It's the tip of an iceberg because it's not just the Morandi bridge that had problems but the country's entire infrastructure that has to be controlled in a proper manner," she added.

The bridge, on the A10 motorway through Genoa, linked northern Italy to France. A 200m section came down during a storm on 14 August 2018 sending dozens of vehicles plunging 45m to the dry riverbed below.

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