- ROME, DEC 6 - The families of victims of a fire at the
Thyssenkrupp steelworks in Turin feel betrayed, Rosina Pilati,
the mother of Giuseppe Demasi, one of the seven victims, said
Monday on the 14th anniversary of the tragedy.
Two German managers are serving five-year terms over the
disaster but the families say they should have got longer
sentences, and other managers should have been punished too.
"We feel mocked, betrayed by a State we don't trust anymore",
said Pilati. "Our tragedy has been forgotten, but we can't
forget: the State must intervene so that the horrible people
that never asked for forgiveness and fled their responsibility
can be punished, the woman said during a ceremony at the
Mounmental Cemetery of Turin, at a memorial built to commemorate
the seven victims.
The seven workers died in a fire in the night between
December 5 and 6, 2007.
Two Thyssenjrupp managers, Harald Espenhahn and Gerald
Priegnitz, were found guilty of manslaughter charges by a German
court and sentenced to five years in prison.
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