On Monday, June 3, the Court of Appeal of Turin sentenced Stephan Schmidheiny, the former Swiss CEO of Eternit, to 18 years’ imprisonment for “permanent culpable disaster and culpable omission of safety measures.” In doing so, the Court added 2 years to the first sentence (16 years) for the 3,000 deaths caused by asbestos used by the multinational company. This verdict is going to boost the battle fought by the victims of the killer fiber throughout the world, victims’ associations say. (Ref. 130377)
“Today, Italy can be proud of its legal system. We’ve won a trial no other country in the world had ever managed to do before.” This is how Raffaele Guariniello, public prosecutor in Turin, rejoiced, in an interview to La Reppublica, with the verdict rendered by the Court of Appeal on June 3 within the framework of the first criminal trial on asbestos. This Italian judge was really working for it, and his investigations have led to trials which have set precedents in Italy as far as security
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