Four defendants refuse to give evidence in Swiss landslide trial

Four of five defendents charged with manslaughter, nine years after a Swiss landslide that claimed eight lives, have refused to give evidence at trial. Two cantonal officials, an external geologist and two representatives of the municipality of Bregaglia are standing trial at the Maloja Regional Court. The central question is whether a major rockslide was foreseeable at the time in 2017 – within a matter of days, weeks or months of the landslide in the southeast village of Bondo. The…