Ex Ilva, the “Ambiente Svenduto” trial has been cancelled. Everything to be redone, starting again from Potenza
The Court of Assizes of Appeal annulled this afternoon the first instance judgment issued in May 2021 regarding the process “Environment Sold Out” in Taranto, which saw the Riva management accused of environmental disaster. The Court also decided to transfer the trial to Potenza.
The first instance verdict had led to 26 convictions for members of the Riva familyformer owners of the plant, company executives and some local and regional politicians, including the former governor of Puglia, Nichi Vendola.
The defense of some defendants had requested the transfer of the trial, arguing that the judicial context in Taranto was not impartial, given that the judges lived in the vicinity of the area concerned. from pollutionand therefore potentially influenced.
Bonelli (Avs): “Aghast. Pollution is not an invention”
“Cancelled the first instance judgment of the process Environment Sold Out in Taranto. I’m amazed. Pollution was it an invention? Deaths and diseases have no responsibility? This is not justice. With this decision, Taranto is inflicted with yet another wound after the health disaster”.
Thus the deputy of Avs Angel Bonelli regarding the decision of the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Taranto. “The data – he adds – speak clearly. In Taranto, over the years, 93% of the dioxin produced in Italy has been released into the atmosphere, together with 67% of the lead, according to what was reported by the Ines register of Ispra, which later became E-Prtr. This dramatic environmental situation pushed the health authority, on March 4, 2010, to prohibit grazing within a radius of 20 km from the steelworks”.
For Bonelli “we are facing one of the most serious health and environmental disasters in Italian and European history, which has caused too many victims, especially among children. The epidemiological investigation of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità confirms this unequivocally. Today, this sentence that annuls what established in the first degree It does not represent an act of justice, but a wound inflicted on those who have already paid a very high price with their health and their life.”
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