21 years and four months in jail in total, this is the accumulative sentence of the seven leaders of the former Breda (Fincantieri) who the Venice court deemed responsible of negligent homicide for 14 people exposed to asbestos on the Marghera shipyard. The managers and the Fincantieri Company were also condemned to the payment of heavy provisions. (Ref. 080661)
An “innovative verdict” and “an important turn in the great and still overwhelmed tragedy of deaths caused by exposure to asbestos.” This is how Silvia Manderino, the civil party’s attorney, commented the ruling of the criminal court of Venice on July 22. the judge, Barbara Lancieri, sentenced to imprisonment (from two years to three years and eight months, depending on how long they worked there and how many people deaths the judge assigned them) the seven managers of the Marghera Breda site (
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