If the company in charge of maintenance Spea acted with negligence in controlling infrastructure it was also why in Aspi “it was fine”. This is what emerges from the wiretapping filed at the end of the hearing excerpt for theinvestigation into the collapse of the Morandi bridge, which took place on August 14, 2018 and cost the lives of 43 people. On January 10, 2020, investigators overhear the conversation between Roberto Tomasi (CEO of Aspi) and the director and manager of the Mef Antonino Turicchi. The two talk about the collapse of the vault in the Bertè gallery, in A26, which took place in December 2019.
Tomasi says to his interlocutor: “You know, you know what the problem is? That this is a story, actually of, for some people … then there are certainly … in my opinion, very few bad apples … but, for most of the people were, of, an environment no longer stimulating, of habits, of, one says … today you just told me about a situation of widespread negligence … these who were inspecting the, on the viaducts, presumably they said … but come on what the fuck, what do you want to have happened from one month to the next …. And Turicchi replies: “But keep in mind what was inside us … because if you did certain things and because on this other side it was okay, ok?! “. And he laughs:” Believe me, compared to other councilors I was there … and believe me I saw! “.
A few days earlier, on January 3, the manager – and historic right-hand man of the Benetton family – Gianni Mion, e Franco Bernabè they feel: for the two it is clear that there have been negligence on the A26, but yes it is difficult to intervene because Aspi, from the collapse of Morandi, it is protecting itself. In the interception Mion declares that “it is clear that there have been negligence: it is difficult to intervene because the whole company is protecting itself “.
Plus, he adds, “for eighteen months they have desperately tried to defend Mr. Gilberto’s indication who said that Castellucci had to be defended“. Also on January 3, Mion speaks on the phone with the president of Atlantia Fabio Cerchiai of the events of the A26 and regarding Spea declares: “I can’t understand how in this situation we can think that the one that hurts the controls does the planning and direction of the works very well“.
On the two controllers suspended after the collapse of the vault, he adds: “To check the vault of the gallery, what the fuck do you want two people to have done, they will have hired people to go up and see, but they went?”. For Mion, “Aspi becomes responsible for something he did not do, but is responsible to have commissioned the maintenance to the incapable or the paraculi“.