Former CEO Eternit asbestos manufacturing facility sentenced to 12 years in jail – Muricas News

A courtroom in Italy has sentenced a former director of an Italian manufacturing facility of the Belgian constructing supplies firm Eternit, now merged into Etex, to 12 years in jail for involuntary manslaughter.

Stephan Schmidheiny, a Swiss businessman, was charged with the deaths of 392 folks within the space of ​​Casale Monferrato, the place he was director of an Eternit manufacturing facility between 1976 and 1986. The victims died from the carcinogenic substance asbestos, which Eternit used to make use of in its constructing supplies.

The attorneys of the Swiss, who had requested the acquittal, have already introduced that they'll enchantment. Along with the jail sentence, the courtroom additionally determined to award provisional compensation of greater than 100 million euros to the municipality, the Italian state and victims. That is reported by Italian media.

 

Earlier convictions

In 2012, the businessman had already acquired 13 years in jail throughout a primary main trial, however the Court docket of Cassation overturned that ruling two years later.

In February, Schmidheiny had already acquired a jail sentence of 1 12 months and eight months in one other enchantment case for the demise of a employee on the manufacturing facility of Cavagnolo, close to Turin. In 2019 he was sentenced to 4 years in jail in Turin, however he appealed. In April 2022, a courtroom in Naples sentenced him to a few years and 6 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter.