There
European Court of Human Rights initiated proceedings against
Italy is
Germany on the case of the burning of the establishment of
ThyssenKrupp to
turin December 6, 2007. They were relatives of the victims and one of the survivors,
Antonio Boccuzzi, to turn to
Court of Strasbourg, accusing the two governments of having violated their rights, in particular that of respect for life, because despite the sentence of
conviction of the
Court of Cassation pronounced in 2016 against two
German managers, these remain in
freedom. The high
Harald Espenhahn and the councilor
Gerald Priegnitz have had definitive penalties respectively a
9 years and 8 months it's at
6 years and 10 months, but they have never served a prison day for the
2007 disaster steelworks. In that huge incident
7 workers died. The signatories of the appeal – which the Court had received a year and a half ago – are 26 in all and stress that the
violation of their right to life would derive "from
omissions and i
delays of the
Italian authorities is
German in executing the
sentence of conviction of the two managers ”. They add that they have no other way, except through the
Court of Strasbourg, to assert their rights against
Rome is
Berlin.
In the reasons for the 2016 ruling, the Cassation found that in support of the decision that of the former CEO and other executives was an "imposing fault" as much "for the awareness that the defendants had developed from the tragic event that first took place, both for the plurality and for the reiteration of the inactivated ducts referring to each of them that, synergistically, had merged in determining "within the Turin plant" a situation of current and latent danger to life and for the physical integrity of workers “. The judges had added that the order was a "imposing fault"Also for" the impressive series of non-compliance to specific accident provisions of primary and secondary nature, not least the provision of security plan that engaged the same workers in the first place to face the fire triggers, endowed of Short-range extinguishing media, held inadequate and to avoid turning to external principals of public intervention ”.
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