the Eternit trial report, Torino (Italy)
February 13, 2012 from 9am to 2pm – Palace of Justice
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On Saturday the 17th of December at 3.27 am after a six hour heated discussion - with four interruptions provoked by the hundreds of angry citizens outside the room - the Town Council of the majority of Casale Monferrato's City Council voted in…Continue
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After two years and sixty-six hearings, the trial against Eternit ended this morning, November 21th. For two years the tribunal of Turin has been filled every Monday (and some Tuesdays) by dozens of lawyers, journalists and an ever wider…Continue
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Posted by FERNANDA GIANNASI on January 10, 2012 at 4:12am 0 Comments 1 Like
STEPHAN SCHMIDHEINY: Il “BILL GATES SVIZZERO” O “IL PADRINO” DELL’ASBESTO?
LA MIRABOLANTE STORIA DI UN UOMO D’AFFARI
Fernanda Giannasi[1]
Ecco come Stephan Schmidheiny, il miliardario svizzero erede dell’impero Eternit, si difende pubblicamente dall’accusa di aver permesso per quasi un secolo l’uso dell’amianto nelle imprese familiari sparse per il mondo. Lo fa tramite il suo sito internet, tradotto in varie lingue. L’amianto è noto per essere cancerogeno, ed è responsabile della maggior catastrofe sanitaria di cui si abbia notizia nella storia contemporanea.
“La polemica sui potenziali effetti nocivi della polvere di amianto è stata uno shock per me sotto molti aspetti. Io stesso sono stato esposto alle fibre di questo materiale durante il mio stage in Brasile. Caricavo sacchi di amianto e gettavo le fibre nel…
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Decretada de Utilidade Pública Federal através da Portaria n.º 2.413 de 16 de dezembro de 2.005 do Ministério da Justiça, Secretaria Nacional de Justiça, Departamento de Justiça, Coordenação de Justiça, Títulos e Qualificação Divisão de Outorgas, Títulos e Qualificação.
Decretada de Utilidade Pública Estadual através da Lei n.º 11.703 de 21 de maio de 2.004 da Assembléia Legislativa do Estado de São Paulo.
Declarada de Utilidade Pública Municipal através da Lei n.º 3.726 de 05/12/2002 da Municipalidade de Osasco/SP
Brasile, San Paolo,…
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20 years of jail for the owners of Eternit
"Schmidheiny and de Cartier were aware of the dangers"
At the 50th hearing of the Eternit trial, the PP asked for a very heavy sentence for the company owners and top management ‘I have never witnessed a disaster such as this, affecting communities and workers and which will continue to reap deaths for time to come’.
‘An appalling disaster’ this is how PP Guariniello described the events involving the asbestos multinational in the court room today. The PP asked for 20 years each for both the top managers of the company accused of wilful and malicious disaster.
‘I re-read the sentences the High Court pronounced in the most…
Posted by Asbestos Victims Families Casale on July 18, 2011 at 4:30pm 0 Comments 1 Like
“Eternit knew that asbestos was a deadly poison for its workers and the inhabitants of Casale”. The international lawyers joined into the plaintiff, give voice to the global tragedy of Eternit corporate crime.
Emmanuelle SCHOUTEN (Belgium): “De Cartier was not just an accountant”
“The defence for De Cartier de Marchienne maintains that at the end of the 60s and the beginning of the 70s the dangers of asbestos and the risks of mesothelioma were not known. In fact this risk was established by the 
studies of Wagner in 1960 and Selikoff in 1964. Representatives from Eternit were present at the Caen conference, where Dr Wagner presented his work, at the New York conference where Selikoff presented his, and at the…
Posted by Eric Jonckheere on July 4, 2011 at 3:30pm 3 Comments 1 Like
She had never worked at the plant. Her mistake had been that the entire family had lived near the Eternit plant [cheminey], and that, as a dutiful wife, she had washed her husband's work clothes. Posted by Asbestos Victims Families Casale on January 24, 2011 at 2:00pm 3 Comments 0 Likes
The defendant's lawyers develop their strategy to downplay the asbestos death toll caused by the Eternit plants in Italy and to minimize the hazard of developing a mesothelioma or other asbestos related dieseases in the unlucky cities that hosted them. The assignment of challenging the tragic epidemiological evidences, is committed to two distinguished experts.
Gary M. Marsh (picture), PhD and Professor at the University of Pittsburg directs occupational epidemiologic studies to explore the long-term health effects of employment. He tries to demolish the methodological criteria of the past emidemiological investigations and he accused the clinical diagnosis of the workers belonging to the Schmidheiny period. An higher rate of…
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Hearing dedicated to epidemiology through the words of two distinguished doctors on opposed sides: Benedetto Terracini (picture) called by the plaintiff and Canzio Romano on the defence side.
Terracini reports on his epidemilogical investigation on Casale Monferrato (see attached paper, in italian) and underlines the…
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MD and professor Corrado Magnani (picture) in collaboration with MD Dario Mirabelli researched the case of asbestos victims in Casale Monferrato in the period 1987-93 giving clear evidence of the risk of the asbestos exposition at Eternit plant and the surroundings.
Epidemiology is the study of patterns of health and illness and associated factors at the population level. The picture of the epidemic in Casale Monferrato is tragic: 600 victims more than the expected, approxinatively 700 time more…
Continue Posted by Asbestos Victims Families Casale on November 29, 2010 at 2:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Second hearing for Barry Castleman: the American expert reports about the industry knowledge of the asbestos hazard backing his extended arguments with evidences and documents. A summary of his two depositions is reported below. Posted by Asbestos Victims Families Casale on November 22, 2010 at 2:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
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