Six seismologists and official had been convicted over reassurance issued to residents before fatal quake in 2009
A court has upheld the appeals of six scientists and an official against their convictions for having given criminally negligent reassurances to the population of the city of LAquila before it was devastated by an earthquake five years ago.
But the judges endorsed a conviction and two-year sentence passed on one of the defendants, Bernardo De Bernardinis, on a connected charge.
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