State Daily (26/04/2010), Pasquale Gargano
Manfredonia -
"This morning, at 12, the single judge in Manfredonia, Dr. Valente has made the decision at first instance Enichem the process.
multinational executives were acquitted because "the crime does not exist."
The process was initiated by a complaint in 1996, the Public Prosecutor of Foggia, by a former factory worker, Nicola Lovecchio. Maurizio Portaluri
and oncology, as a result of investigations and research had done. The prosecutor Lidia Now, after five years of investigation and findings, then managed to start the process. In hearings beginning in 2001, full of witnesses and experts who reconstruct the facts. The indictment is severe: multiple manslaughter motivated workers from exposure to arsenic Enichem. In 1976 he had broken the washing column of ammonia, in which were contained tons of arsenic. In the immediate future was not made clear the seriousness of the accident, and reclamation left with ten days delay. The workers and all employees of Anic went to work regularly, even on the day of the accident. The workers were employed in the reclamation without due caution. But most were not specifically informed about the risk. It was only later, due to very high values \u200b\u200bof arsenic in urine, starting with their periods of illness. In the process, the workers who formed part of 23 are injured, many of which, today, dead or suffering from cancer. The process has gone on in recent years, with Mrs. Lovecchio, the widow of a worker who has reported everything in silence to listen in class, along with relatives of other workers. The first trial lasted six years, for the many expert consultants provided by the public prosecutor, and counter-expertise Enichem. Surveys that have tried to shed light on the materials used in manufacturing, security systems, especially arsenic and exposure to urea dust. But if science agrees, in a unanimous, the carcinogenic nature of arsenic, is not just for the experts Enichem. Which I have also suggested during the trial that the excessive rate of arsenic in the analysis made to the workers, was not connected with the explosion or, even less, production processes, but their eating habits.
High consumption of shellfish and shrimp in particular, they said, is the cause of the high rate of arsenicure. High consumption, according to the experts the prosecution can be quantified in a pound daily, most not. Today, in a classroom packed with people as if they had not seen for years, the judge pronounced sentence: all acquitted because the crime does not exist. Words fall, after two hours of waiting, in complete silence, "concludes Langiu. (Alessandro Langiu by Map - October 2001). In 2008 the family decided to appeal Lovecchio supported by Democratic Medicine. To report research in recent years a group of citizens, including Giulio Di Luzio, author of Ghosts Enichem : "We have collected the testimony of a woman in August 1980 gave birth to a child with liver practically melted," says Di Luzio. "The doctors could not explain why, but it is possible that the cause may have been exposure to a cloud of ammonia leaking from the plant in an accident Aug. 3, 1980, while the woman was in the last days of pregnancy ( Processor Focus.it).
MOBILIZATIONS THE CITY - Among the first to mobilize, to shed light on the matter, the women of Manfredonia, in particular by the association 'White Lance' who in 1988 managed to take the case of contamination Manfredonia on the Commission on Human Rights in Brussels. In 1998, the same commission recognized a compensation for 40 mothers who are victims of contamination. In the same year, Manfredonia is inserted between the contaminated sites of national interest. In 2007, the industrial area was drained for 12% and 55% were approved the final draft. WOMEN IN WHITE LAUNCHES A NEW SCENE - The next Wednesday, April 28, at 18, in the multimedia room of the Municipal Library of Manfredonia, the women of the Association 'White Spear' promote a press conference to announce their return to the city's cultural scene and the reopening of the appeal process Enichem against the Third Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Bari, set April 30 and proposed by the prosecutor of Foggia, Lydia George, after the acquittals of First Instance. To confirm it to the president of the State of Manfredonia, Dr. Yolanda D'Errico. AFTER JUDGEMENT - "What is Politics? And 'search for a compromise that allows high-enlarged beyond the needs and self-interest, thus helping to elevate the civility of a community. E 'to this idea of \u200b\u200bpolitics that we women of the White Spear are deeply outraged and disappointed by the choice of the City of Manfredonia to withdraw the provision of plaintiffs in the case against Enichem. Even more c'indigna the fact that a choice is so important to the history of our city has been taken in a closed room by a few politicians, thus circumventing the democratic debate. The decision was justified by reasons "technical ed'opportunità economy." In their view can repay € 300,000 deaths, the suffering, the toxins that have polluted the environment and, apparently, even conscience. But life and death can not be monetized. The Town Council with this decision not only withdrew from the process, but above all by narrow moral pact with the city. Among the flames of a foehn summer has renewed the old barter between the reasons and justifications for administrative ideals. For the "Palace" might be acceptable excuse for any unfavorable ruling, but the Community has lost another opportunity to say that dignity is not for sale. We women of the Association Bianca Lancia, faithful to our history, we continue to be present as a civil party in the process because we want the stigma already given by the city to the factory, there is also the legal sentence. " WHY 'WHITE LAUNCHES - "The figure of a woman at the center of the logo is white Lance, mother of King Manfredi, founder of the city, and wife of Frederick II, emperor who so loved our land defined it as "light of my eyes." The face, with historic and symbolic significance, is crossed by an hourglass, measurement of time: now is the time for women. In this way represents the evolution of female consciousness in our area. In the background is outlined Castle of Manfredonia, the place of the woman. The central figure is enclosed in an octagon, the symbol of infinity, surrounded by triangles that symbolize the rays of a star, star that shines its light, which aims to spread the immensity. " IN 2000 THE FIRST PRESS RELEASES PRE SETTLEMENT OF SAN GALLI GLASS - "The Environment Councillor unfavorable opinion of the Puglia Region at mega - isos LPG plant near Manfredonia is a great victory of the coordinating for the use and protection of the territory" of Manfredonia , joined several associations of national and local levels. The position expressed by the region belies all those, including local politicians and administrators, who have always minimized the risks of industrial facilities provided within easy reach of Manfredonia, the "Committee" has always referred to as a source of danger to life and health Citizens and incompatible with the territory and the small and medium enterprises in the Contract Area (...) It 's the case of Glass
Sangalli, which is determined to carry on its business in contaminated soil ENIChem plant in violation of environmental protection and national Europe and has been granted by the municipality of Monte Sant'Angelo building permits without having exceeded the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Coordination considers it essential that in responding to the demand for labor, not neglect the health and quality of life of citizens, including the right to a sustainable development without the need to address new environmental emergencies like that, still unresolved, the Plant Enichem of Stain. "
Lovecchio LADY, THE LORD OF MANFREDONIA - "It's been five days and a weekend sull'Enichem the ruling, handed down last Friday in Manfredonia. (..) It was reassuring to the presence of women inside the classroom, mothers of grown children, (..) while we waited out the sentence. We're back here, "said a woman Bianca Lancia, and saw the face of Mrs. Anna Maria Lovecchio, a little 'surprise but also reassured by their presence. Outside, two of the three children of Anna Maria and Nicholas, Vincent and Francis. I say "we wanted to buy again." What? "Yes, € 135 thousand, this time," says Francis. That day I had asked Mrs Anna Maria what she thought of this new offer, he was visibly apprehensive. So today I called to hear how she was, and knowing that he knocked over a little, I ask, "Anna Maria, had offered a lot more money this time?". And she, after a moment of silence he replies: "Alexander the money does not make sense, the only objective is justice, and is not to be bought with money." (From Paper - 'Justice can not buy' Alessandro Langiu of October 5, 2007).
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