Swiss businessman Stephan Ernest
Schmidheiny got three and a half years in jail Wednesday for the
manslaughter of Antonio Balestrieri, one of the workers at the
Eternit plant at Bagnoli near Naples who died after prolonged
exposure to asbestos.
He was cleared in the death of another worker, Franco
Evangelista.
Another six cases in the trial were ruled to have timed out due
to the statue of limitations.
Prosecutors had asked for 23 years and 11 months in jail for the
74-year-old former Eternit owner.
Relatives of the other workers who died after asbestos exposure
shouted "Shame, shame" outside the courtroom in Naples.
Ciro Balestrieri, son of the worker whose death was sanctioned,
said "the sentence is a disappointment, there has been no
justice for us".
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