Overview

• The court’s published motivations say the derailment was caused exclusively by the rupture of a worn joint whose defect had been promptly detected by maintenance crews.
• Eight defendants, including former RFI CEO Maurizio Gentile and the company, were acquitted of disaster, homicide and injury charges because executives lacked actionable knowledge and the safety-management model was deemed adequate in practice.
• Former Brescia maintenance chief Marco Albanesi was sentenced to five years and three months for negligently underestimating a known risk and allowing the planned joint replacement to stall.
• The crash killed three women and left more than two hundred people with physical or psychological injuries, and judges awarded over €1 million in provisional damages to dozens of civil parties, with other victims compensated through settlements.
• Prosecutors had sought five additional convictions, including an eight-year-and-four-month term for Gentile and a finding against RFI, and they can now pursue an appeal.