Genoa, Aug. 14 (LaPresse) — At 11:36 a.m., Genoa came to a standstill once again: church bells throughout the diocese and the sirens of ships in the harbor once again joined in commemorating the 43 victims of the Morandi Bridge collapse. The memorial ceremony is underway, as it is every year, at the Radura della Memoria in the Certosa neighborhood—one of the most symbolic areas and among those hardest hit by a disaster that forever changed the city’s history and way of life. As the minute of silence begins, the names of the 43 people swept away and carried off by the collapse of the highway bridge scroll across the screen behind the memorial stage, on the eighth anniversary—which is also the first since last month’s court ruling that established liability for the tragedy.
Morandi Bridge: At 11:36 a.m., church bells and ship sirens mark the anniversary of the disaster
Genoa, Aug. 14 (LaPresse) — At 11:36 a.m., Genoa came to a standstill once again: church bells throughout the diocese and the sirens of ships in the harbor once again joined in commemorating the 43 victims of the Morandi Bridge collapse. The memorial ceremony is underway, as it is every year, at the Radura della Memoria in the Certosa neighborhood—one of the most symbolic areas and among those hardest hit by a disaster that forever changed the city’s history and way of life. As the minute of silence begins, the names of the 43 people swept away and carried off by the collapse of the highway bridge scroll across the screen behind the memorial stage, on the eighth anniversary—which is also the first since last month’s court ruling that established liability for the tragedy.