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Justice has not been served on the
January 2017 Rigopiano avalanche disaster, a victim's father
said Wednesday after an appeal court revised an initial sentence
to convict eight people - three more than in the original ruling
- and acquit a further 22.
"This sentence marks the death of prevention in Italy," said
Egidio Bonifazi, the father of Emanuele, a 31-year-old
receptionist at the Rigopiano hotel, adding that all the
avalanche warnings had been ignored.
"What's the point of doing prevention? he asked rhetorically.
"I felt a lot of confusion. They have not done justice. I am
very bitter because the main perpetrators have not been
punished," dded Bonifazi added.
"We expected more: the conviction of the Region and the
Province," said Alessio Feniello, father of 28-year-old Stefano,
another of the 29 people to die under the rubble of the hotel
hit by an avalanche.
"I don't think it's normal to convict a municipal technician and
the former prefect for falsehood. Other people should have been
convicted. Had they all been given life imprisonment today, it
wouldn't have changed anything for me. I could look at the photo
of my son and say I did my duty to give you justice," he added.
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