Filippo Nogarin, the former mayor of Livorno from the M5s party, has been sentenced to three years in prison for multiple counts of aggravated manslaughter in the trial for the 2017 flooding in Livorno, which resulted in the deaths of eight people. The court also ordered Nogarin (along with the Municipality of Livorno) to pay damages, which will be determined in a separate civil proceeding. Nogarin must pay a provisional sum of €2,050,000 to 15 plaintiffs. The claim for damages made by the municipality was rejected. Nogarin, who served as mayor from 2014 to 2019 and later joined Virginia Raggi’s staff in Rome, was the only defendant. Previously, Riccardo Pucciarelli, then head of the local civil protection and municipal police commander, had been acquitted in an expedited trial. The verdict was delivered yesterday afternoon. The prosecutors had requested a four-year sentence for Nogarin, who was present in court at the time of the reading of the sentence. Nogarin’s defense attorney, Sabrina Franzone, immediately stated, “I am convinced of what we argued in our defense, but the court has decided otherwise. Now we will wait for the reasoning and file an appeal.” The trial began on May 12, 2022, and yesterday the first verdict was announced.
Livorno, 3 anni all’ex sindaco del M5s Filippo Nogarin per i morti nell’alluvione
Livorno Ex sindaco M5s Livorno condannato 3 anni per morti alluvione. GN