(ANSA) - Rome, February 22 - Six managers of Parma-based oil
and gas infrastructure company Bonatti risk trial over the July
2015 kidnapping in Libya of four workers that ended with two of
them, Salvatore Failla and Fausto Piano, being killed in March
2016.
Prosecutors said after winding up their probe Wednesday that
the kidnapping could have been averted if "adequate" security
measures had been adopted by the firm.
The six have been charged with culpable cooperation in a
crime, judicial sources said.
In October it was learned that the six Bonatti managers were
under investigation in relation to the killing last March of
Failla and Piano.
Among the six is Dennis 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.
photo: Failla (L) and Piano
6 risk trial for Italian Libya hostages (3)
Bonatti managers accused of inadequate security measures