Bernardo De Bernardinis the deputy technical head of Italy's Civil Protection official has been caught up in uniquely unusually trial that is scheduled for September of this year resulting from his comments in the week leading up an earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila killing 309 people. After meeting with a group of six Italian seismologists to assess the risk related to increases in seismic activity in the area, De Bernardinis held a press conference where he overly optimistically informed the city occupants they were not in danger. The public prosecutor of L'Aquila has now pressed manslaughter charges against all the participants in the meeting for falsely reassuring the public, describing the group’s risk assessment "superficial and generic", resulting in "incomplete, imprecise and contradictory public information". Inspired by Adrian Chen ow.ly/5aNSg image source laquilanuova ow.ly/5aO3S No danger…the situation looks favorable (June 10 2011)

Bernardo De Bernardinis the deputy technical head of Italy’s Civil Protection official has been caught up in uniquely unusually trial that is scheduled for September of this year resulting from his comments in the week leading up an earthquake that struck the city of L’Aquila killing 309 people. After meeting with a group of six Italian seismologists to assess the risk related to increases in seismic activity in the area, De Bernardinis held a press conference where he overly optimistically informed the city occupants they were not in danger. The public prosecutor of L’Aquila has now pressed manslaughter charges against all the participants in the meeting for falsely reassuring the public, describing the group’s risk assessment “superficial and generic”, resulting in “incomplete, imprecise and contradictory public information”.

 

Inspired by Adrian Chen ow.ly/5aNSg image source laquilanuova ow.ly/5aO3S