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the Eternit trial report, Torino (Italy)

July 2011 Blog Posts (3)

FIELD REPORT - day #53 - LAWYERS FROM SWITZERLAND, BELGIUM and FRANCE TO PLEAD AGAINST ETERNIT

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…

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Added by Asbestos Victims Families Casale on July 18, 2011 at 16:30 — No Comments

FIELD REPORT - day #50 - Guariniello asks for a 20 year sentence

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…

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Added by Asbestos Victims Families Casale on July 4, 2011 at 18:30 — 5 Comments

Lawsuit in Belgium

After losing her husband Pierre (an engineer at Eternit Belgium) due to mesothelioma in 1987, Françoise Jonckheere was herself diagnosed in 1999 with the same killer disease due to her prolonged exposure to asbestos.…
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Added by Eric Jonckheere on July 4, 2011 at 15:30 — 3 Comments

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A French résumé of our field report from the courtroom is weekly published on the Andeva website

Download the pdf version of the ANDEVA bulletin n°37 dedicated to the ETERNIT TRIAL of Turin, ENGLISH version or FRENCH version

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