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When Boschi, the country's leading seismologist, was asked by the judge why he followed what his boss, the head of the civil protection agency, told him to tell people, even if it went against his own better judgement, Boschi responded: "when my boss tells me to go somewhere and say A, then I go there and say A".
"I'm not crazy," Picuti says. "I know they can't predict earthquakes. The basis of the charges is not that they didn't predict the earthquake. As functionaries of the state, they had certain duties imposed by law: to evaluate and characterize the risks that were present in L'Aquila." Part of that risk assessment, he says, should have included the density of the urban population and the known fragility of many ancient buildings in the city centre. "They were obligated to evaluate the degree of risk given all these factors," he says, "and they did not."