ArcelorMittal, there is no solution but it is. Commissioners file a complaint with the prosecutor of Taranto

• Ex Ilva, Arcelor Mittal announces the suspension of activities at the Taranto plant
• Ex Ilva, dramatic situation: Arcelor Mittal communicates the plant closure plan
• ArcelorMittal meeting company-unions tomorrow. Presidium at the Mise of related companies
• Ilva: the M5S senators open to the penal shield in time, "but ArcelorMittal comes back to negotiate"
• ArcelorMittal filed the contract withdrawal contract in court
• Arcelor Mittal, today in court to request the withdrawal from the contract
• ArcelorMittal, Di Maio: "The penal shield is a mass distractor"

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The game for the fate of the former Ilva of Taranto remains all uphill. Yesterday 's meeting at the Mise between government and unions has not been new, although it has clarified the reasons why Mittal wants to withdraw. It was Arcelor Italy's CEO Lucia Morselli who explained that with the disappearance of the penal shield "the basic concept of the former Ilva recovery plan was broken" and that "continuing is a crime". There is the problem of the conditions of the Altoforno two, the one that the judiciary of Taranto wants to be closed by December. Prime Minister Conte excludes that it will be closed, but after the parliamentary mess on the shield ArcelorMittal no longer trusts. For Luigi Di Maio the criminal shield has nothing to do with it, "we drag them to court" he reiterates today. For the Franco-Indian giant, however, the shield is the problem.

The commissioners of Ilva this morning meanwhile filed a complaint with a prosecutor in Taranto with the center "facts and behavior relating to the contractual relationship with ArcelorMittal, damaging the national economy". Therefore, it is stated in a statement of theirs, the request to the Public Prosecutor's Office is to verify the existence of hypothesis of crime

The company's proposal "is unacceptable" comments the Minister of Labor, Nunzia Catalfo, underlining the reduction in personnel with 5,000 redundancies requested by the group. Catalfo explains that the company had also asked "to go in derogation of the rules on safety at work", request "to which I opposed a sharp no".

And the unions return to ensuring that workers will not shut down the facilities. Landini (CGIL) speaks of an illegitimate and unacceptable act: "We will not be accomplices, we will find forms and ways, because there people want to produce steel without polluting, it does not want to shut down plants".

Yesterday's meeting at Mise "was a very, very complicated meeting, where no progress was made. We expect the agreement that we signed with ArcelorMittal a year ago, with the government guarantee, to be respected by everyone "says Annamaria Furlan (Cisl). "We told ArcelorMittal to withdraw the relegation and the government to remit the penal shield, a guarantee factor that he wanted to remove in an incomprehensible way."

As for Barbagallo (Uil) "this story that we will make a great cause to society worries me, because when the cause ends we will no longer have industrial prospects and jobs", he says. "Last night we asked to commit to a comparison with the property as the CEO only has the order to close. We cannot make ourselves accomplices in this wickedness - he continues -. If we do not solve the problem we will have a tragedy to face for 20 thousand families , without considering the issue of steel production and the consequent increase in costs ".

The ruler of Puglia, Michele Emiliano, is included in the tarantino tarot, saying he is convinced that Mittal's strategy is to bring down the government. "Mittal is trying to put the Italian government in a political crisis. It is doing something unprecedented in the international economy: a multinational that tries, albeit indirectly, to bring down a government. Never seen anything like this in history," he said yesterday evening at 'Petrolio', on Rai2.

"ArcelorMittal is raising its threat to the highest levels. It is putting the factory to sleep, it is not destroying it, I hope, because it wants to exert maximum pressure on the Italian government or because it wants to leave and wants to negotiate conditions to do so; he wants to stay but on his terms, not the ones he signed ".

Calenda, today I call company management = (AGI) - Rome, Nov. 16 - "I haven't spoken with the Mittals for 18 months. Today I call them. Because between the follies of Morselli and those of the Government here we are destroying the industrial capacity of the country". This was written by former Minister of Economic Development Carlo Calenda on Twitter.

V.Boccia, solutions not muscle tests ++ Admit error and immediately put back shield (ANSA) - ASTI, NOVEMBER 16 - "The muscular dimension does not serve anybody. For Ilva solutions are needed". The president of the industrialists, Vincenzo Boccia, in Asti said this for the assembly of the local industrial union. For Boccia "the first thing to do is put back the shield, and we must admit the mistake we made, from which we determined this situation". "The sooner the company is called to understand these aspects, and try to recover a report that day after the day it becomes more and more difficult, a dialogue that by now is half the press and that leads us nowhere ".

The Milan Public Prosecutor opens a file: "The public interest must be protected"
The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office breaks into the ArcelorMittal case by opening a penal scenario, currently barely sketched because without crimes or suspects, and entering into civil proceedings as the bearer of "public interest". A sort of double pincer on the Franco-Indian group against which commercial-corporate crimes could be hypothesized for the escape from the Apulian steelworks. The prosecutor Francesco Greco has delegated the Economic Unit of the Guardia di Finanza to carry out "preliminary checks" to verify "the possible existence of crimes". Unpublished, even if with some precedents, the dress worn by the Public Prosecutor in the civil trial born from the summons with which the multinational company requests the withdrawal from the rental contract. Greco believes that the intervention he defined as a "right - duty" is necessary for "the protection of a public interest relating to the defense of employment levels, the economic - productive needs of the country, and the obligations of the recovery process". "There are precedents in 'Clean Hands - the prosecutor explains to the Agi - like when a beacon was lit on Mediobanca". To deal with both fronts, coordinated by an expert magistrate like Maurizio Romanelli, will be the public prosecutors Stefano Civardi and Mauro Clerici, the first to start investigations into the foreign activities of the Riva family, which led to the seizure of 1.3 million in one safe from Jersey, then released for the remediation of the Taranto plant. The last act of a long series of proceedings was, on 6 July this year, the acquittal from the bankruptcy crime for Fabio Riva, head of the iron and steel group together with his father Emilio and his brother Nicola. At the penal level, the prosecution intends to ascertain whether, during the execution of the rental contract, from which Mittal wants to withdraw, significant criminal conduct has been carried out that has caused the eventual depletion of the business branch. Also in the Milan offices, today the urgent appeal of the extraordinary Commissioners of the former Ilva was filed, the counter-appeal to stop the counterpart's farewell. "The hasty methods of returning the former Ilva steel plants are unacceptable because they risk causing irreparable damage to the production cycle by destroying the company", they claim in the appeal, with the request to adopt measures capable of preserving the continuity of productivity for the whole duration of the civil trial. Already on Monday, the judge Claudio Marangoni could set the date of the first hearing. For the moment, instead, the Presidency of the Council remains silent which, theoretically, could support the Public Prosecutor's Office.