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02 July 2020One of the two managers of the German steel giant Thyssen Krupp convicted of the accident at the Turin plant in 2007 (which resulted in the death of seven workers) today showed up in prison in Germany to serve his sentence. This was announced by Radio Colonia, which got the news from the Essen public prosecutor.

However, the German broadcaster explains that it does not know whether the manager who entered the prison is Harald Espenhahn, former CEO of the Piedmontese factory, or Gerald Priegnitz, former financial manager. Both, he remembers, have to serve a 5-year sentence for manslaughter. And even for the second manager it could only be a matter of days. It depends, explains the broadcaster, on the terms indicated by the court for the presentation in prison. For both of them, he adds, the sentence will be served in a semi-liberty regime and during the day they will continue to work for Thyssen.  

The mother of one of the victims: "They will serve their sentence in prison"
"After 6 trials, one of which in Germany, I hope that both managers will remain in jail and not in a semi-liberty regime as has happened so far. They would have served their sentence" . This is the comment of Rosina Platì, mother of one of the victims of the 2007 accident in which 7 workers lost their lives.

The relatives of the victims have long fought against the semi-freedom regime to which the two convicted managers were subjected. The prison was long awaited by the families of the dead workers, who a week ago had met the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, the Minister of Justice Alfonso Bonafede and the Mayor of Turin Chiara Appendino at Palazzo Chigi, to ask for full justice for their loved ones. "It was time for it to end, or at least start to end a truly paradoxical situation. We await the second incarceration," says the director of Safety and Labor, Massimiliano Quirico, who has always supported the families of the victims in this battle.