Di Maio says Atlantia must repay tolls

MILAN, July 09 (Reuters): Deputy Italian Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said infrastructure group Atlantia should repay excessively high tolls earned in recent years from its motorway concession if it wanted to keep the contract, a newspaper reported.

Di Maio's 5-Star Movement has been threatening to revoke the contract under which the Italian company runs the nation's largest motorway network after a bridge operated by the group collapsed last August killing 43 people.

But party sources have told Reuters the 5-Star Movement would be prepared to accept a compromise if Atlantia yields to a number of demands including sizeable cuts to road tariffs.