An appeals court on Friday
upheld a term for five years in jail for former Genoa mayor
Marta Vincenzi on charges of multiple culpable manslaughter,
culpable disaster and fraud for a 2011 flood that caused six
deaths in the northwestern Italian city.
Four women and two small girls died in the flooding.
In 2016 a court of first instance gave Vincenzi, of the
ruling centre-left Democratic Party (PD), five years in jail for
the November 4, 2011 flood in which the six were killed.
"I consider myself innocent", said the PD official at the
time.
"It's just as well that three levels of justice are foreseen
in Italy. This doesn't end here".
Vincenzi's husband had a bad turn when the sentence was read
out Friday.
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