L’AQUILA, Italy — Defying assertions that earthquakes cannot be predicted, an Italian court convicted seven scientists of manslaughter Monday for failing to adequately warn residents before a temblor struck central Italy in 2009 and killed more than 300 people.
The court in L’Aquila also sentenced the defendants to six years each in prison. All are members of the national Great Risks Commission, and several are prominent scientists or experts on geological disasters.
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This Italian legal decision is outrageous. Will we now hold President Obama's economists liable for professional malpractice for their poor economic forecasts?
Wow. And you wondered how their justice system could work over that American college student accused of murder there. How is it that 70 years after the end of WWII that the Italians are DUMBER and scarier stupid than ever before??!?!? How is it possible in this era of the internet that a court could bring a conviction like this??!? Italy and Italian courts continue to EMBARRASS Italian Americans and Italians everywhere. This is worse than a dumb joke. It makes an entire country look STUPID! So much for the 'enlightened' Euros the Democrats are always so overly enthralled with...