The man who had the task of classifying the risk of the Morandi bridge, according to interceptions, had never seen it live. And in addition to not having personally inspected the infrastructure – which since 2013 in the Aspi documents was indicated at risk of collapse due to delayed maintenance – that official had never been in Genoa.
The facts emerge from an interception, on March 28, 2019, of Roberto Salvi, operational member of the risk management of Autostrade, who speaks on the phone with his father: “I had never gone to Genoa to see this bridge; they told me: “Do the catastrophe risk analysis”. And I: ok ». The interception is one of those formally admitted in the trial on the collapse of August 14, 2018, which resulted in 43 victims.
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Salvi is under pressure, he has just received a visit from the Guardia di Finanza, who wants to understand the criteria with which Atlantia’s Corporate Risk Catalog has been drawn up. Salvi’s explanation is given to the parent: “I asked myself the problem …. what may be (the risks, ed), eh I don’t know … And I went to the one who deals with bridges. The I asked: where could a catastrophe happen? He opened my computer and showed me: “Here, here”. Finished. This is how it was born ».
“Here you are” refers to Morandi. The Risk Catalog is considered by the Genoa Public Prosecutor’s Office to be a crucial document because the risk, instead of increasing over time, decreases without any intervention being carried out. In 2015, the cause disappears from the wording, the reference to “delayed maintenance”.
The “risk of collapse” disappeared from the documents
Then in 2016 it comes deleted also the “risk of collapse”, replaced with a more reassuring “loss of static functionality of the Polcevera viaduct”. There is one last detail, which closes the circle. The risk of collapse was rated “low” each year. In theory, the answer came from the data provided by sensors mounted on the Morandi. Devices which, as the financiers later discovered, they didn’t exist. They had been cut during a construction site by workers from Pavimental, a company controlled by Autostrade. And no one, from that moment on, had reactivated them.