L’Aquila earthquake scientists sentenced to six years in jail

October 22nd, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Richard Walters of Oxford University’s Department of Earth Sciences, said he
was “saddened” about the verdict, warning that it set a “dangerous
precedent”.

“The issue here is about miscommunication of science, and we should not be
putting responsible scientists who gave measured, scientifically accurate
information in prison. This sets a very dangerous precedent and I fear it
will discourage other scientists from offering their advice on natural
hazards and trying to help society in this way.”

Prof Malcolm Sperrin, Director of Medical Physics, Royal Berkshire Hospital,
said: “If the scientific community is to be penalised for making predictions
that turn out to be incorrect, or for not accurately predicting an event
that subsequently occurs, then scientific endeavour will be restricted to
certainties only and the benefits that are associated with findings from
medicine to physics will be stalled.”

Prosecutor Fabio Picuti had sought four-year terms for each of the defendants
accusing them of failing to alert the population of the historic Medieval
town only days before quake struck on April 6. Judge Billi’s reason for the
longer sentence imposed will be disclosed at a later date.

In his summing up earlier on Monday, Mr Picuti told the court that the
defendants had provided “an incomplete, inept, unsuitable and criminally
mistaken” analysis which gave the residents of L’Aquila a false sense of
security.

He compared them to the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which
came under fire for failing to assess the risks before Hurricane Katrina
destroyed New Orleans in 2005.

Speaking after the sentencing, Enzi Boschi, the former president of Italy’s
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, who was among the seven
found guilty, said he was “disappointed and devastated”.

“I thought I would be cleared. I still don’t understand of what I am accused,”
he said.

Defence lawyers condemned the sentence and pledged to appeal it – under the
Italian system, the seven will remain free until they have exhausted two
chances to appeal.

Marcello Petrelli who represented Franco Barberi, professor of volcanology and
a former deputy Civil Protection minister, said the sentence was “incredible
and incomprehensible”.

But family members of some of those killed in the earthquake said the victims
had won the case with the help of “heavenly” intervention.

“Between the objections and the sentence I went to the cemetery to see my
nephew, I felt like saying that the accused had a large stable of lawyers
but this time my ‘celestial lawyer’ has won,” said Antonietta Centofanti,
aunt of Davide who was killed in the university dormitory on the night of
the quake.

After the main earthquake struck, L’Aquila and the surrounding area was shaken
by another 250 powerful aftershocks within 48 hours.

The quake caused damage worth an estimated 10 billion euros (£8 billion),
leaving large areas of the city abandoned even today and the community still
devastated by the tragedy.

Source Article from http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568301/s/24c0541b/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0Cnews0Cworldnews0Ceurope0Citaly0C96260A750CLAquila0Eearthquake0Escientists0Esentenced0Eto0Esix0Eyears0Ein0Ejail0Bhtml/story01.htm