It amounts to more than 120 years the Total request for sentence for 9 of the 15 defendants of the Miteni trial. In progress in the Assize Court of the Vicenza court, it is one of the Cases of more serious pollution in Italian history and one of the most extensive contaminations from PFAS (poly- and per-Fluoroalchilic substances) in the world, which has exposed to the risk about 350 thousand people.
The public accusation, represented by the ministries public Hans Roderich Blattner And Paolo Fiettaasked for convictions for an amount total of 121 years and 6 months. At the bar 15 managers who have followed each other over the years at the helm of the Trissino company accused of polluted with the Pfas large areas of the territory among the provinces of Vicenza, Verona And Padua.
In these days the indictment of the accusation took place in the classroom, which ended with the request for acquittal for Maki Hosoda, Kenij Ito, Mario Fabris, Davide Drusian, Mauro Cognola, Mario Mistrorigo. The accusatory framework, in various capacities, underlines water poisoning, disaster, environmental pollution: from the old to the new Genx and C6o4 compounds.
I Pfas in Veneto
Discovered in 2013 by an investigation by the CNR-Irsa, the contamination from Pfas between the provinces of Verona, Vicenza and Padua has traced back to public attention the danger of these artificial substances-also known as “Eternal pollutants“Because they do not degrade in the environment – which accumulate in the human body and can cause different pathologies, including some tumor forms.
Everyone was aware of the pollution of the aquifer that propagated between the provinces of Vicenza, Verona and Padua – explains the prosecutor Blattner – but some not so much to affect the choices to be taken.
Finally, there is also the crime of fraudulent bankruptcy for which the company Fallia Miteni is held responsible: 125 thousand euros of conviction, plus the confiscation of 437 thousand. The same sum, the latter, to be confiscated from three defendants, former ICIG leaders.
