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19 October 2017No error in the final sentence for the fire that took place at the Thyssenkrupp plant in Turin, where, in December 2007, 7 workers lost their lives. With this motivation the third penal section of the Cassation rejected, declaring them inadmissible, the extraordinary appeals presented by the managing director of Thyssen Harald Espenhahn (sentenced to 9 years and 8 months), by the executives Gerald Priegnitz, Marco Pucci (both sentenced to 6 years and 10 months) and Daniele Moroni (sentenced to 7 years and 6 months) against the verdict that the Supreme Court - fourth penal section - pronounced on May 13, 2016.

"It is completely absent - reads the ordinances filed today by the third penal section - the factual error attributed to the judge of legitimacy", which has instead "widely argued" on the "recalculation of the sentence" made during the appeal -bis, "deeming it compliant with the law and adequately justified, also bearing in mind the contents of the indictment, the individual positions of the defendants and the conduct attributed to them, as well as the contents of the decision of the joint sections", with which the Cassation, in April 2014, he issued a new appeal process for the re-determination of sentences.

In recent days, on the sidelines of the Gai Council in Luxembourg, the Minister of Justice Andrea Orlando returned to urge Germany on the execution of the sentence for Espenhahn and Priegnitz. Italy had requested his extradition, but this was declared ineligible because both convicts are German citizens. In the first months of this year, therefore, our country has asked the German judicial authority to recognize the sentence pronounced by the Italian judges at the stake of Thyssen, and to have the relative sentence executed in Germany by the two convicts. Minister Orlando, in Luxembourg last Thursday, then asked his German counterpart Heiko Maas for "interest" in the prompt execution of the sentence. The German minister undertook, during the meeting with Orlando, to carry out an in-depth study of the issue as soon as possible.