(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121022-laquila-1-3a.photoblog600.jpg)Maurizio Degl'innocenti / EPA, fileMore than 300 people died after a quake in L'Aquila, Italy on April 6, 2009. The city was strewn with rubble and thousands left homeless.By Peter Jeary, NBC NewsA court in the Italian city of L’Aquila is expected to hand down verdicts on Monday to six scientists and one government official charged with manslaughter for failing to give sufficient warning of a fatal earthquake that hit in 2009.
The case centers around a meeting the seven defendants, all members of a commission on natural disasters, held in L’Aquila on March 31, 2009, in which they told residents there was no cause for concern after a series of minor shocks had rocked the city in the preceding six months.
In the early hours of April 6, a 6.3-magnitude quake (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2009/us2009fcaf/) reduced much of the medieval city to rubble, leaving 309 people dead and more than 60,000 homeless, according to news reports at the time (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/28/pope-visits-earthquake-zone).
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So that was what they were expecting? Silly people