The Daily Mail » The Genoa bridge collapse which has claimed the lives of at least 39 people may have been an accident waiting to happen after ‘mafia’ companies were involved in its construction, it has been claimed.  For decades, ‘families’ as mafia groups are often known, are believed to have blackmailed, conned and forced their way into big building contracts. Engineers have now claimed the same thing may have happened when the Morandi Viaduct in Genoa was built between 1963 and 1967.