Benetton family calls for 5-Star to stop 'hate campaign' – letter

The Benettons are the biggest investor in infrastructure group Atlantia, owner of Autostrade per l’Italia which operates the motorway in Genoa where the viaduct gave way. “I want to clarify a big misunderstanding: no member of our family has ever run Autostrade,” Luciano Benetton, 84, who has taken back the reins of the family businesses, wrote in the letter published in full by la Repubblica daily on Sunday. The Benetton family has come under heavy attack following the disaster in August 2018 and the ruling 5-Star Movement has called for Autostrade to be stripped of its motorway concession.