Reports: Italian court blames 2009 earthquake victims for their ‘deaths’

An Italian court has ruled that some victims of the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake were partly responsible for their “deaths,” according to media reports.

New Delhi, Updated: Oct 13, 2022 10:03 IST

An Italian court has ruled that some victims of the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake were partly responsible for their “deaths”. (representative image)

By India Today Web Desk: An Italian court has ruled that some victims of the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake were partly responsible for their “deaths”. According to media reports, the court said that the compensation of the victim’s relatives should be reduced.

The 6.3-magnitude earthquake occurred on April 6 at 3:32 a.m. (local time), after months of tremors in the rugged Abruzzo region of central Italy. Houses have collapsed across the historic center of L’Aquila, killing 309 people, AFP reported.

According to the news agency, the judge said in a civil lawsuit for damages in millions of euros, filed by relatives of 24 people who died in one of the buildings, that the victims returned to bed despite two tremors earlier in the night.

“This reckless behavior” made them “30 per cent responsible” for their deaths, the Italian newspaper Messaggero was quoted by AFP as saying.

Meanwhile, Maria Grazia Piccinini, a lawyer for the mother of Ellaria Rambaldi, the 25-year-old student who died, said the ruling was “ridiculous” given that experts downplayed fears of a deadly earthquake.

“My daughter was as reassured as anyone else,” Piccinini told Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper, adding that she would appeal the ruling.

Seven members of Italy’s Commission for the Prevention of Major Hazards were initially convicted over advice given to residents prior to the disaster, but all but one of these were subsequently rescinded.

The earthquake, which reduced L’Aquila’s elegant medieval, Renaissance and Baroque squares and buildings into ruins, injuring 1,600 people and leaving at least 80,000 homeless.

(with input from AFP)

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