• 6 December 2007, the fire and the massacre among the workers of the line 5 of the Thyssenkrupp of Turin
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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea December 06, 2019At 12 years after the tragedy that caused the death of the seven workers in the burning of the Thyssenkrupp in Turin, the anger of the relatives of Rosario Rodinò , Antonio Schiavone , Roberto Scola , Angelo Laurino , Bruno Santino , Rocco Marzo and Giuseppe Demas was horribly killed by the flames that developed from line 5 and which devastated the establishment.

The sentence on which the Supreme Court also ruled in 2016 has long been executable also in Germany, but the German managers convicted of the Thyssenkrupp fire are still free.

On November 14th, the European Court of Human Rights also took action against Italy and Germany to understand why German officials are still free.

Here, then, that on the day of the recurrence of one of the most terrifying and atrocious work tragedies in Italy, on December 6th 2007, the voice of the relatives of the victims rises loud showing all their disappointment and their anger for a situation that they define is inadmissible is little.

"Waiting all this time for justice is inhuman", Laura Rodinò says with tears in her eyes, in front of her brother Rosario's tomb in the monumental cemetery of Turin. "Finally we are at the European Court of Human Rights - he underlines - We hope that the damned German murderers will be thrown in jail. And we also want to know why Italian assassins are already out ...".

The Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede, expressed his solidarity with the relatives of the victims: "The tragedy at the ThyssenKrupp plant in Turin on the night between 5 and 6 December 2007 represents an open wound that will never heal. their families have never stopped claiming their right to obtain justice, even knowing that any sentence will never be able to alleviate their infinite pain ". The Minister of Justice then announced: "I will continue in this battle because no state, no democracy, must never forget every citizen who has seen his own right violated, even more so if it is a question of the right to life".

Rosario Rodinò was 26 years old the night between 5 and 6 December 2007, when on line 5 the fire that costed his life developed. The flames also killed Antonio Schiavone, Roberto Scola, Angelo Laurino, Bruno Santino, Rocco Marzo and Giuseppe Demasi.

For what has gone down in history as one of the most gruesome catastrophes of work in recent times, the Cassation sentenced Cosimo Cafueri (6 years and 8 months), Marco Pucci (6 years and 10 months), Daniele Moroni (7 years and 6 months) and Raffaele Salerno (7 years and 2 months).
Harald Espenhahn and Gerald Priegnitz also sentenced to 9 years and 8 months and 6 years and 10 months respectively.

The Italian executives of the plant began the jail term in 2016, later obtaining social services while German managers did not spend even a day in prison.

"12 long years have passed and we are still here, this is our daily life, which unfortunately sees us in an unchanged condition, with the doors of the prison that have opened to let the guilty go out instead - says Rosina Demasi , her mother di Giuseppe - We still want to believe in justice, because in a civilized country those who make a mistake pay. We must think that our country has lost this sense of civilization ", he adds. Chiara Appendino, mayor of Turin present at the ceremony with the regional councilors Elena Chiorino and Andrea Tronzano, the prefect Claudio Palomba and Paola Dezzani, a later judge in the first Thyssen trial, embraces Signora Demasi in a sense of solidarity.

"Today the right to justice is still denied - says the first citizen of Turin - and this is unacceptable".