Mauro Moretti is continuing his five-year sentence for the Viareggio disaster at his home in Rome. The change concerns where the sentence is served, not the conviction made final by Italy’s Court of Cassation.
The former chief executive of Ferrovie dello Stato received permission from a surveillance judge to serve the sentence under home detention. ANSA reported that Moretti left Orvieto prison on 3 November and is serving the remainder at his Rome residence.
His lawyer, Ambra Giovene, linked the decision to health-protection needs. She said Moretti had lost 15 kilograms and was seriously weakened, and added that his conduct in prison had been exemplary. Those are the defence’s stated grounds; ANSA’s report does not include the full judicial order, its duration or the conditions attached to home detention.
For Daniela Rombi, president of Il Mondo che vorrei, an association of victims’ relatives, the decision exposes a painful gap between a lawful sentence and how it is experienced by those affected by the disaster. Rombi said she respects the law, but argued that the time Moretti spent in prison was very short in relation to the case, in which 32 people died on 29 June 2009.
The two positions can coexist as a matter of fact. Home detention is a way of executing a sentence; it does not erase the judgment. Yet in a case shaped by years of litigation and bereavement, the move from prison to home inevitably revives the public argument about the sentence’s practical weight. The point is neither to portray home detention as an acquittal nor to turn reported health concerns into a moral verdict. It is to acknowledge that a legally available measure can remain deeply disputed by relatives who assess justice partly through the time actually spent in prison.
Source: ANSA.
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