In 2017, the Court of
Lucca tried thirty-three people in connection with the derailment. The first instance trial ended with ten accused acquitted and the conviction of the others, including the former
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI)
CEOs Mauro Moretti and
Michele Mario Elia. Moretti was sentenced to seven years in prison for his role as CEO of RFI (2001–2006) but acquitted as CEO of
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) (2006–2014), while Elia was sentenced to seven and a half years. However, the Court of Lucca imposed the highest penalties (from six to eight years) on the defendants of the companies Gatx Rail and Jungenthal, responsible for the mechanical problems that caused the accident. The first instance ruling was partially confirmed by the Florence Court of Appeal with the ruling of 20 June 2019, which also ordered the acquittal of further positions referable to the RFI Company and confirmed the acquittal of
Ferrovie dello Stato and FS Logistics from administrative responsibility. During 2020, all the convicts filed an appeal with the Supreme Court. With sentence of 8 January 2021, the Supreme Court confirmed the criminal responsibility for the crime of culpable railway disaster of 11 people (of which 9 belonging - at the time of the facts - to the companies responsible for maintenance activities / revision, Gatx Rail Germany, Gatx Rail Austria, Jungenthal, Cima Riparazioni; one belonging to Trenitalia and one to FS Logistica); the Court also annulled the sentence pronounced by the Court of Appeal against the positions of the former CEOs of
RFI (
Michele Mario Elia and
Mauro Moretti, the latter also former CEO of
Ferrovie dello Stato) and 3 other people, deferring all to a new appeal judgment. Upon the outcome of the Supreme Court judgment, all the companies originally blamed for administrative liability were definitively acquitted. == See also ==