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November 22, 2019An inspection by proxy of the Public Prosecutor's Office that in the Arcelor Mittal steel plant in Taranto by the Noah's carabinieri of Rome, the Nucleus on safety at work and the Provincial Command in the context of the investigations started after the commissaires of Ilva . The attention of the carabinieri of Rome and Taranto, in the inspection is concentrated on "a careful control of the hot area". It is learned from judicial sources. The survey aims to ascertain if there has been impoverishment of the raw materials, if maintenance has been carried out or if the plants represent a danger for the workers, then an overall verification of mineral parks, conveyor belts, coking plants, agglomerates, blast furnaces and steel mills in general

The verifications concern the reclamation operations in the plant, the general situation of the factory, the maintenance activities carried out so far and the safety on the job. Ispra will also collaborate in these investigations. The crimes of "Destruction of means of production" and "Misappropriation" are hypothesized, last Monday there was an inspection by the Guardia di Finanza (with acquisition and seizure of documents, IT and cellular supports) in the offices of the plant. The inspection of the carabinieri, under the coordination of the provincial command, had already been planned by the prosecutor Carlo Capristo, the deputy prosecutor Maurizio Carbone and the deputy prosecutor Mariano Buccoliero, who are in charge of the investigation. The objective, we learn from judicial sources, is to "take a photograph of the places to verify the conditions of the establishment according to what emerged from the report by the extraordinary commissioners".

Meeting at Palazzo Chigi between the leaders of Arcelor Mittal and Prime Minister Conte
Today at Palazzo Chigi the premier Giuseppe Conte will see the top management of ArcelorMittal to try to resolve the dispute over the plants of the former steelworks. At the table, it was agreed, the ministers Stefano Patuanelli and Roberto Gualtieri will sit with Conte. And there will also be the managing director of Arcelor Mittal Italy Lucia Morselli, considered the face of the negotiation on the former Ilva of Taranto. In the last vertex, with a negative outcome, there were Lakshmi Mittal and Aditya Mittal, father and son, respectively CEO and CFO of Arcelor Mittal.

A story on which you start to see some chink, with Conte decided to ask for certainties about the jobs and the announced redundancies. Only if Ancelor Mittal is prepared to negotiate the numbers will the President of the Council consider whether the topic of the criminal shield should be discussed. The multinational, for its part, has announced that it will participate with 'trust' at the top. A meeting 'certainly not conclusive, but very important', still leaks from ArcelorMittal. There is therefore 'serenity', they still say, on the fact that 'it will be a huge job but we are confident that we can start doing it with the Italian government'.

Remains open the path of the decree for the city of Taranto. "Nothing is coming," commented Vincenzo Cesareo, former president of Confindustria Taranto and national councilor Federmeccanica. "Except for the transporters and a group of companies that ArcelorMittal considers strategic for the production of the plant, practically nothing has arrived. ArcelorMittal must make a move. You can't wait long. "

Induced, it continues garrison for the fifth day
For the fifth consecutive day the garrison of the Arcelor Mittal steel plant in Taranto is continuing to be guarded by companies induced claiming payment of invoices. Confindustria, after a meeting with the company, yesterday talked about payments to hauliers in almost all of the audience for 70% of turnover, and for the other articulations in the order of about 50%, hoping "satisfaction over the next 24/48 hours, all suppliers will pay 100% of overdue invoices and not the entire turnover ".