Shares in Atlantia, the
Benetton-controlled motorway group, surged 5.5% on Tuesday on
rumours its highway unit Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI) won't
have its concession stripped after the 2018 Genoa bridge
disaster that killed 43 people.
Until now the ruling anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S)
had insisted ASPI was to blame for the disaster due to alleged
lack of maintenance, and it would lose its concession.
But the M5S's Giancarlo Cancelleri, deputy transport and
infrastructure minister, said Tuesday the revocation might not
happen after all.
"For us it should be stripped but it may happen to keep it,"
he told Italian radio.
"I'm pushing to get the license revoked but conviction
doesn't count much".
The M5S's main coalition partner, the centre-left Democratic
Party (PD), has said ASPI should keep the concession.
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