indictments in the "Marlane Marzotto" After 10 years returns process for environmental damage Stefano Federici 107 people died of cancer, many others ill, a region ravaged and polluted, as this left in Praia a Mare and its population by Marlane Marzotto Valdagno ( vi) closed in 2004.
It took over 10 years of struggle for workers and the union-Slai cobas, the only union that defends them and that it was also a civil, arriving, after 4 months and 6 preliminary hearing, the trial for multiple murder for failure to comply with the rules and safety disaster external (environmental) and internal for the lack of protection for workers.
Friday, November 12 in the court of Paola, Antonella pm Lauri and Gup Salvatore Carpino, were indicted Pietro Marzotto (Cav. count of the work already Valdagno and president of the Industrial Association of Vicenza), Silvano Storer (formerly with the Group), Jean de Jaegher (Council of the 'European Association of Textile Industries and president of the Marzotto USA from '95 to '98), Lorenzo Bosetti (ex-mayor and director of Valdagno Officer and Vice President of Lanerossi), Vincent Benincasa, Salvatore Crystalline, Ivo Comegna, Charles Lomonaco (ex-manager and mayor of Praia dye), Giuseppe Ferrari, Lamberto Priori, Ernesto Emilio Fugazzola, Antonio Favrin (deputy chairman of Confindustria Veneto) and Attilio Rauss, defended by a bipartisan panel including Niccolo Ghedini (PDL), Guido Calvi (PD) and Giuliano Pisapia (Sel and next candidate for mayor in Milan for the left).
The company was founded in the 50s by the count produced Rivets and fabrics, mostly military uniforms. The wards were divided by walls.
Then in 1969 it passed into the hands of 'Eni - Lanerossi and later, in 1987, the Marzotto group for 173 billion lire. For the 200 workers laid off, the finance facility made available to Eni, for each of them, 44 million for a reallocation of employment never took place.
The factory, run by just Lanerossi, removed the dividing walls and thus became a unique environment in which all converged warping and weaving, spinning and dyeing, and so the fumes from the chemicals the coloring is expanding everywhere.
There were no vacuums in operation and the workers threw the dyes in open tanks without any protection. In this factory there was asbestos in brake linings of the frames, which, consumed, emitted respirable dust by all.
At the end of the day was "donated" a bag of milk to every worker, the only remedy to the poison breathed throughout the shift. In 1996, the dry cleaners was closed. I also seem
damage extended to the surrounding environment. Behind the Marzotto Marlane there are excavations which have been found in toxic waste.
words Mara Malavenda, national director of the cobas Slai-which, along with Senator Chambers of Naples and the lawyer. Natalia Diamante Branda, who fought together with workers, are the best summary of how difficult it was to get this first result:
"In the thirty-year silence, still looming, institutions responsible for monitoring health in the factory and land, (confederal unions and parties of the center, center, and related media), today Marlane Marzotto is on trial ... the serious corporate crimes and disturbing reports of complicity of those who, in charge of protection workers, but has 'protected' the illicit corporate behavior and allowed the massacre and the irreparable environmental disaster, while it is still in place and the dripping of the dead of cancer patients for years after the plant closure.
should prevent creeping attempt to soften the process in favor of the Marzotto and at the expense of workers. It is disturbing that instead of being established as a must plaintiff, the Ministry of Environment, the Region of Calabria, the Province of Cosenza, and the Municipality of Praia a Mare (with the mayor under investigation), continue to evade the defense of workers, citizens and the environment! But as
expect something different when the lawyers of the corporation, who have called the requirement of the offenses are Giuliano Pisapia, Refoundation Communist candidate for mayor in Milan in the next administration?! Perhaps because
to see their names to the nomenclature of 'excellent' among the 14 suspects for various reasons is more important than the hundreds of workers killed or died of cancer patients?! But as workers know that they are well wide, and having to rely primarily on our own forces as workers and Slai-cobas we Marzotto dragged to court and we know that to get 'justice', we must continue this way. " 16/11/2010
