Just a note for foreign journalists. The populist party Five Stars already removed the webpage where in April 2013 they had defined the risk of collapse of that segment of highway in Genoa "a fairytale" – because of their ideological and fanatical aversion to new infrastructures
For years, many have been discussing the construction of a new stretch of highway around Genoa, alternative to the one that has collapsed so disastrously today (not far from home). The populist party 5s - which is currently in government - has always been against the project.
and here you can listen to the founder and charismatic leader of the Five Star, Beppe Grillo, invoking the intervention of Italian Army against the construction of the new highway in Oct 2014. The old highway collapsed this morning as cars traveled over it