ITALY — Six of Italy’s top seismologists and natural disaster scientists, as well as, a government official have been sentenced to prison terms over the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake. The quake killed 300 people and destroyed the city.
The court ruled the scientists guilty of manslaughter and sentenced them to 6 years in jail.
Over 5000 international scientists sent an open letter to President Giorgio Napolitano denouncing the trial.
Enzi Boschi (former president of Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) said, ”I am disappointed and devastated. I thought I would be cleared. I still don’t understand of what I am accused.”