A Milan prosecutor on Wednesday
asked the indictment of a number of former top Fiat executives
active in the 1990s on multiple manslaughter charges.
The case regards 21 workers at the Alfa Romeo plant in
Arese, located in the northwestern periphery of Milan, whose
deaths were caused by a form of cancer associated with asbestos
exposure.
Prosecutor Maurizio Ascione asked a judge for the
indictment of former Fiat chief executive Paolo Cantarella, the
ex-chairman of Fiat Auto Giorgio Garuzzo and five former
managers of Alfa Romeo, including its ex-chief executive
Vincenzo Moro.
The prosecution claims the workers’ deaths, which took
place from the year 2000 onward, were due to asbestos they
inhaled due to inadequate protection in the 1980s and early
1990s.
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