Ilva: stages of the investigation for environmental disaster with 47 defendants – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

15:58 July 23, 2015

(AGI) – Taranto, July 23 . – Large amounts of the judicial investigation on the environmental disaster Ilva are at least three: 174 people died, because of the pollution of the steel industry between 2005 and 2012; 47 defendants, 44 individuals and three companies’ (Riva Fire, Water’s Edge Electric ovens and Ilva), today sent for trial by the judge of the preliminary hearing Wilma Gilli, who set the first hearing in the Assize Court for October 20 next ; about 800 plaintiffs admitted between victims ‘families, environmental movements, the City and County of Taranto, Puglia Region and the Ministries of Environment and Health with requests billions for damages.
The investigation and’ exploded three years ago, on the afternoon of July 26, when, on the orders of the investigating magistrate Patrizia Todisco, the Police went to Ilva to order the confiscation without right ‘of use, all the plants in the heat of the steel and make the first arrests under house arrest.
pollution and Ilva ‘”source of disease and death,” wrote the investigating judge. Eight people in all, including Emilio and Nicola Riva, former presidents Ilva, father and son end up under house arrest. But while business executives regain freedom after a few days ‘, the two Riva, however, will remain under house arrest for a year because all instances of Freedom’ presented by their lawyers at various venues – investigating judge, the Court of Review and the Supreme Court – will be dismissed.
The investigation after the “bang” of July 2012, he knows four important phases. The first and ‘in November 2012 with more arrests, including that of Jerome Archina’, former advisor for institutional relations Ilva – the “long arm” of Riva, prosecutors say, to press on with the reasons of the company political institutions and the union – and Fabio Riva, former vice president of the group. But Fabio Riva, also a son of Emilio, will not be ‘found. In December 2012 we will ‘know that you are in London for work, where he will be’ traced to January 2013. Fabio Riva decide ‘to return to Italy to constitute only last June. In fact, the industrial and ‘still in prison in Taranto. With Fabio Riva and Archina ‘, re-arrest for the former director of the factory in Taranto, Luigi Capogrosso, already’ arrested in July. This time, however, ‘for Capogrosso the order of the investigating judge has the prison while on July 26 had gone under house arrest. The third stage of the investigation triggered instead in May 2013 with the arrest, in prison, the then President of the Province of Taranto, Gianni Florido, and former Provincial Councillor for Environment, Michael Keep, for a story of landfills Ilva . They are accused of having pressured the leaders of the province ’cause rilasciassero Ilva permissions Landfill. Fourth stage of the investigation in late May 2013, when the investigating judge has a seizure 8 billion on the assets, accounts and companies of Riva. Excluded from seizure only Ilva, ’cause in the meantime, in December 2012, and’ intervened before the law which protects the production and activity ‘. The seizure, significant in size, and ‘made for equivalent. In essence, the investigating judge believes that 8 billion are the sum that the Bank, over the years, would have to spend for environmental restoration of the steel of Taranto. The seizure billionaire will ‘then canceled without referral by the Supreme Court, at the request of the lawyers of the Riva, in December 2013. Fifth stage of the investigation the investigating judge, the arrest, in September 2013, the trustees of the Riva family that consultants , although not formally included in the organization and responsibility ‘business, braids had great power and giving orders. For the prosecution, they were the parallel structure of the direction in which the Bank controlled what happened in Taranto. All the work of investigation then closes in October 2013 with the submission by the Prosecutor, alerts conclusion of the investigation. The preliminary hearing before the preliminary hearing judge Wilma Gilli begins in June 2014. For reasons of overcrowding, including defendants, plaintiffs and lawyers, must be transformed into the courtroom gym provincial command of the Fire Department of Taranto. The preliminary hearing of the preliminary hearing judge and ‘immediately had to stop’ cause lawyers of some defendants, including Riva, requests a transfer to another location of the process. They argue that in Taranto there are no conditions for a judgment “calm and balanced” – their reference ‘to the various events promoted by environmentalists with the participation of thousands of people -. In October 2014, however, ‘the Supreme Court will reject’ the instance and will maintain ‘the process in Taranto. That will go ‘on for several hearings until the end of today with 47 indictments. All subjects for whom the prosecutor had formulated specific request. But in three years the story Ilva also saw the launch of several laws – the latest standards are being discussed today in the House by a vote of confidence requested by the Government on the dl failures – as well as’ the appeal to the Constitutional Court, by the courts of Taranto, against the first law sull’Ilva (See boccera but ‘the exceptions of unconstitutionality’ raised). The Government has also decided the commissioner of the company. This will shoot ‘in June 2013 (Government Letta) following the resignation of the board of Ilva after the seizure by 8 billion. In order, hano managed Ilva by commissioners before Enrico Bondi and Edo Ronchi for a year, then Piero Gnudi and Corrado Carruba (Ronchi and Carrubba charged with sub commissioners) and now, by January, with the administration Extraordinary Commissioners Gnudi, Carrubba and Enrico Laghi.
Like three years ago, the most ‘big problem Ilva is the environmental remediation of the site of Taranto, for which the law of June 2013, the one that ordered the commissioner, predicted that they use the money (1.2 billion) seized Emilio and Adriano Riva, brothers (Emilio and ‘died in April 2014) for tax offenses and currency.
Laid out, this was also confirmed by additional laws sull’Ilva but braids of Riva those resources are still in Switzerland and not flocked to the company.
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