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Associazione Famigliari Vittime Amianto
vertenzamianto@gmail.com
tel. +39 0142 336817
fax +39 0142 74988 c/o CGIL Camera Del Lavoro Piazza Castello, 31, Casale Monferrato 15033, (AL), Italy

Latest Activity

January 30
PUBLIC TRIAL, hearing #2 at Palace of Justice
January 25, 2010 from 9:30am to 2pm
Second hearing of the trial. It's time for the defendant's lawyer to try to rule out as more people from the plaintiff as they could. It could be a long debate. READ THE TRIAL REPORT FOR THIS DAY HERE
January 27
A blog post by Asbestos Victims Families Casale was featured
January 25th, 2010. The only one public hearing of the first month has given the defendant's lawyer the chance to ask for an exclusion of the civil authorities out of the trail. The judge Casalbore gave the last chance for signing up for the plainti…
January 27
January 25th, 2010. The only one public hearing of the first month has given the defendant's lawyer the chance to ask the judge for considering to rule out the trail the civil authorities charged for permanent intentional environmental disaster. Th…
January 26
A discussion started by Asbestos Victims Families Casale was featured
What's Eternit? It's the company which produces manufactured goods out of a mixing of asbestos and cement. Asbestos is a mineral widely employed in the past decades because it is fireproof, heatresistant (for these reasons in ancient times it was c…
December 23, 2009
December 17, 2009
4 videos by Asbestos Victims Families Casale were featured
December 16, 2009
PUBLIC TRIAL, debut and mass rally at Palace of Justice, Great hall
December 10, 2009 all day
In Turin, for the first time, the major stockholders of Eternit will appear in the dock. What’s at stake is not only to decide whether the Swiss millionaire and the Belgian baron are guilty, but also to what extent the corporation is socially respon…
December 16, 2009
Niccolò Bruna added a video
a brief trailer of the documentary about the Eternit trial and the asbestos epidemic by Niccolò Bruna and Andrea Prandstraller
December 16, 2009
December 14, 2009
Niccolò Bruna added 6 photos
December 14, 2009
Mauro Ravarino added 2 blog posts
December 12, 2009
 

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Asbestos Victims Families Casale

FIELD REPORT - day #2 The procedural trap

January 25th, 2010. The only public hearing this month has given the defendant's lawyer the chance to ask for an exclusion of the civil authorities from the trail. For the last time, the judge Casalbore invited to sign up for the plaintiff.

The lawyers of the firms Etex Group (Belgium), Eternit Schweiz, Hanova Holding A.g., Amindus Holding A.g., Ametex A.g. and Becon A.g. (Switzerland), and the ones representing the European Community and… Continue

Posted by Asbestos Victims Families Casale on January 27, 2010 at 2:00am

Asbestos Victims Families Casale

FIELD REPORT - day #1 A resolved begin

December 10th, 2009. It's 10 AM. when the judge Giuseppe Casalbore gets in the maxi courtroom of the Palace of Justice of Turin, Italy, leading off the begin of the great Eternit trial.


It is not just the main lawsuit related to the asbestos epidemic worldwide but also a landmark in the knowledge of the asbestos danger and, we hope, a warni… Continue

Posted by Asbestos Victims Families Casale on December 14, 2009 at 4:00am — 2 Comments

Mauro Ravarino

«Le vittime Eternit chiedono giustizia»

Parenti da tutta Europa all'apertura del processo a Torino. Morti e malati a causa dell'amianto

Sono venuti in tanti. Da ogni angolo d'Europa dove l'amianto ha sparso morte. Sono venuti con la foto dei cari, con ansia di giustizia. Per dire che «ogni essere umano ha più valore di tutto l'amianto e il profitto al mondo» come recita lo striscione dell'Andeva, l'associazione francese delle vittime. Peppino Meloni ha 74 anni, un sorriso timido e le mani forti, arriva da Paray Le Monial, un c… Continue

Posted by Mauro Ravarino on December 12, 2009 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Mauro Ravarino

Al via il processo Eternit: oltre 2 mila vittime dell'amianto

Un pool di avvocati da diversi Paesi per difendere i lavoratori. A giudizio i vertici della multinazionale
TORINO - Per la prima volta a Casale Monferrato si superano i 50 casi di mesotelioma in un anno. Non era mai successo. I dati sono ufficiosi, stime dell'Asl locale. «È sconfortante, ma speriamo sia il picco», commenta Bruno Pesce, coordinatore dell'associazione vittime dell'amianto, esorcizzando la paura che il peggio (previsto per il 2020) debba ancora venire. Lui è un uomo mite, ma… Continue

Posted by Mauro Ravarino on December 10, 2009 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

Asbestos Victims Families Casale

PUBLIC HEARING DAY #1 - READY? GO!

The mobilization for the first day of trial is started, there will be lots of us in Torino on December 10th, why don't you?

A DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE PALACE OF JUSTICE WILL HELD DURING THE TRIAL SESSION
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Coach bookings are already being accepted and we have 13 bus coming from different part of Italy. The friends from Paray le Monial (an Eternit plant in France) will come also, as well as a delegation of the ABEVA from Belgium (thanks Eric!), the Netherlands and United… Continue

Posted by Asbestos Victims Families Casale on December 9, 2009 at 2:30am

Asbestos Victims Families Casale

5.000 flags for JUSTICE

On December 10th 2009, in occasion of the first public hearing of the lawsuit against Eternit, we'll ask the people of Casale Monferrato and Cavagnolo to expose the italian national flag with the word JUSTICE! on it. This is a civil right fight belonging to everybody and its message should be spreaded around the whole country.

The flags will be distributed at the… Continue

Posted by Asbestos Victims Families Casale on November 11, 2009 at 10:30am

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Asbestos Victims Families Casale

Q&A - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Asbestos but...

What's Eternit? It's the company which produced manufactured goods out of a mixing of asbestos and cement (patented by Ludwig Hatschek in 1901). Asbestos is a mineral widely employed in the past deca…

Tagged: eternit, asbestos

Started by Asbestos Victims Families Casale in LAWSUIT Dec. 23, 2009.

Asbestos Victims Families Casale

Mobilization for the trial, join us! Organization and suggestions. 3 Replies

THE MOBILIZATION FOR THE TRIAL DEBUT IS STARTED AGAIN, DATE: DECEMBER 10TH, 2009 VENUE: PALACE OF JUSTICE, TORINO, ITALY A MASS RALLY IN FRONT OF THE PALACE WILL HELD DURING THE TRIAL SESSION. The…

Tagged: rally, public trial

Started by Asbestos Victims Families Casale in LAWSUIT. Last reply by Annie Thébaud-Mony Apr. 6, 2009.

Asbestos Victims Families Casale

Eternit Pre-Trial Manoeuvre to impoverish the plaintiff 2 Replies

Right a month before the beginning of the trial, a new proposal has been made by Becon (a firm linked to Schmidheiny) in order to pay compensation to the citizens of Casale victims of the asbestos an…

Started by Asbestos Victims Families Casale in LAWSUIT. Last reply by Enzo Ferrara Mar. 22, 2009.

Asbestos Victims Families Casale

WHY THIS TRIAL IS SO CRUCIAL ? an introduction to the plaintiff point of wiev

ETERNIT SUED FOR 2,000 DEAD and 1,000 SICK FORMER WORKERS AND CITIZENS The CGIL and the Association of the Asbestos Victims’ Families of Casale Monferrato are paying the workers or their heirs a over…

Tagged: mobilization, bruno, law

Started by Asbestos Victims Families Casale in LAWSUIT Feb. 23, 2009.

Niccolò Bruna

Filming the asbestos trial: a documentary to tell the epidemic

For the last two years we projected and developed a documentary film for the international audience called The Great Asbestos Trial (It snows even in summer) in order to represent the tragedy of the…

Tagged: MEDIA

Started by Niccolò Bruna in MEDIA PARTICIPATION Feb. 28, 2009.

 
 

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