ROME — Four top Italian disaster specialists quit their posts Tuesday, saying the manslaughter convictions of former colleagues for failing to adequately warn of a deadly 2009 earthquake mean they cannot effectively perform their duties.
A court in the quake-devastated town of L’Aquila convicted seven former members of Italy’s so-called Great Risks Commission and sentenced each of them to six years in prison, prompting predictions that specialists would be discouraged from working in Italy for fear of similar risks of prosecution.
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Italy has now created 21st century Galileos. Scientists vs lawyers, judges, priests, it always ends badly for scientists there.
70 years after WWII and the Italians are more scary DUMB than ever! Italy is an embarrassment to Europe, an embarrassment to Italy, and an embarrassment to Italians all over the world! That such appalling ignorance would be allowed into the courts in the first place is just obscene to the advancement of the human race! Italy and Italians, get your act together! You are an embarrassment to mankind!!!!