Rome prosecutors on Thursday
requested the indictment of five managers of the Parma-based oil
and gas infrastructure firm Bonatti in the deaths in Libya March
2 of kidnapped engineers Salvatore Failla and Fausto Piano, as
they were being moved by their Libyan captors along with two
fellow technicians who survived.
Bonatti should be tried because of a failure to provide
adequate security, the prosecutors said.
The indictment requests were made Bonatti President Paolo
Ghirelli, three directors, the firm's Libya chief Dennis Morson,
and the company itself.
The four Bonatti workers were abducted in July 2015.
Prosecutors said after winding up their probe that the
kidnapping could have been averted if "adequate" security
measures had been adopted by the firm.
The five have been charged with culpable cooperation in a
crime, judicial sources said.
In October it was learned that the Bonatti managers were
under investigation in relation to the killing last March of
Failla and Piano.
Among the five is Morson, Bonatti's logistics chief for
Libya, who has been probed for suspected culpable homicide and
breaching regulations on safe working conditions.
Failla and Piano were killed on March 2, apparently in a
firefight between the kidnappers and militia loyal to the
Tripoli national unity government, although the circumstances
are still not entirely clear.
They were taken captive along with two other Italian
hostages, Filippo Calcagno and Gino Pollicardo, in July 2015.
Calcagno and Pollicardo broke out of the house they were
being held in in the city of Sabratha a day after Failla and
Piano were killed.
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