The two German managers who have been convicted over the December 2007 fire at the Thyssenkrupp steelworks in Turin that killed seven workers will shortly be jailed, Piedmont prosecutor general Francesco Saluzzo said Friday.
Former CEO Harald Espenhahn, whose sentence was reduced on appeal to 9 years and 8 months, and Gerald Priegnitz, whose term was cut to 6 years and 3 months, saw their final appeals rejected by Germany's high court in January.
Saluzzo was speaking after receiving a report from Eurojust.
Victims' relatives have been calling for the two managers to be jailed for years.
Saluzzo said procedures regarding the pair had been slowed by the COVID emergency.
Former MP and blaze survivor Antonio Boccuzzi said "finally good news.
"On the one hand, the no to semi-liberty, on the other, perhaps, the end to an affair that has lasted 12 and a half years. "It's a wound that as well as not being healed, gets continuously infected".
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