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Italians scientists jailed over L’Aquila quake

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http://www.euronews.com/ A group of six Italian scientists and a former senior government official have been sentenced to six years over their handling of the L’Acquila earthquale. A court found them guilty of multiple manslaughter over the 2009 quake, which left 309 people dead.

The court also ruled that the seven defendants be barred for life from holding public office.
Prosecutors said they had given a misleadingly reassuring statement to local residents after studying the tremors that occurred before the 6.3 magnitude quake struck

Lawyers for the defendants countered it is impossible to predict major earthquakes and argued Italy’s scientific community were being put on trial.

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  1. @FLCAIST3R

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    Don't drop the soap.

  2. @EarlFaulk

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    Exactly what I was going to say. GTFO now while you still can.

  3. @salikagroeg

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    Do not accuse or criticize the whole of Italian population.

  4. @salikagroeg

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    What can prevent further deaths in future earthquakes is building earthquake resistant structures in seismogenic areas. Condemning scientists whose job is NOT making pseudo-predicitons is not the solution. Earthquake prediction D-O-E-S N-O-T E-X-I-S-T in the current stage in mankind. Or do you think that Japan condemned any scientist for the 20,000 deaths after the Tohoku earthquake?

  5. @salikagroeg

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    Shame!!! Shame!! Shame!!!

  6. @Starsandfunk

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    Actually, not it isn't. Scientists ARE generally intellectually superior to lawyers and judges. And this judge in particular has demonstrated a colossal level of ignorance for the field of volcanology thereby demonstrating his inferior intellect. In addition, the act of sentencing these scientists demonstrate that his morality is particularly low. So next time think before commenting.

    If you happen to be a 'poetic type' you refer to and feel undermined by scientific minds, that's just too bad.

  7. @IndifferentSky

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    If you don't know them personally, or anything about them it's difficult to assess the intellectual superiority and impossible to assess the "moral" superiority. You sound like one of those pretentious wind bags that waxes poetic and bellows about science and hero worships scientists beyond what is appropriate.

  8. @shububu12

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    That does not make it ok for other people to act like retards…..

  9. @Xamsims

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    Over 300 people still died.

  10. @LegionLives

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    Because those loving Italians, who used to spit on science… now decry them for NOT being God-like?

  11. @saurabhCherished

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    All Italian scientists should go on strike and let these laymen predict/study the activities of inter-tectonic plates.I wonder how many of these activists/plaintiffs/lawmakers know to locate Italy on the world map.

  12. @Starsandfunk

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    This is absolutely disgraceful. Not only are these scientists are totally innocent, but they are vastly intellectually and morally superior to the cape-wearing humanities/legal idiot who sentenced them.

  13. @ne4erSURRENDER

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    Well, what are you Italian scientists waiting for? It's time to move to another country where you'd be appreciated. The rest of Italians prefer to stick to their dark ages religion & pasta cooking classes.

  14. @cmdargument

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    I hope they put them together in jail with access to all chemicals in the kitchen, etc.
    SO they can cook up some rogue science and break out.
    Ah, bellísimo

  15. @MrCFruitfly

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    This is a disgrace. Italiano infamare

  16. @emerald1one1

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    MAYBE the court could take on the COMPUTER which may have sent the info . release the Scientists

  17. @emerald1one1

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    Strange news for Scientists

  18. @Notofthisworld13

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    This is a disgrace. They should be released immediately. A sad day for science in Italy.

  19. @watchulla

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    wow
    I would not be a scientist in that country!!
    I thought the US was bad a throwing people in jail!!
    But the US is still the worst at throwing people in prison,
    and it's getting worse!!

  20. @LifeInElSalvador

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    it is impossible to predict magnitude

  21. @republicofsandles

    May 20, 2024 at 7:31 am

    This is an overreaction.

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