In recent years Casale Monferrato has been struck down by a plague that compares so well with the Medioeval ones, from smallpox to the bubonic plague.
Up till now, 1,700 people have died because of Eternit. Each year there are an additional 50 to 60 funerals. The death factory has been closed down, but agricultural areas and zones within the town have still to be made safe. Obviously those in charge of the factory are at large. They knew what was happening and they would like to buy the silence of the administration with two euro. Perhaps they will succeed. It’s the usual disgusting stuff. The usual Italy. But when will we manage to say enough, enough, ENOUGH?

What people from Casale Monferrato are saying
1700 deaths from asbestos
Good day. We are in Casale Monferrato. I am Luca Dainese and I’m part of the MoVimento Cinque Stelle {Five Star MoVement}. We are in Via Oggero. Here there were some Eternit warehouses. Now they have been partially demolished and the demolition of these warehouses is the symbol of the battle against asbestos. As has been established by the Prosecuting Magistrate Guariniello, 1700 people have died from this blight and so many others will die in the years to come. ...

Citizens and institutions have to be united
My name is Bruno Pesce. I am the coordinator of the association of the families of the victims of asbestos, coordinator of the asbestos group. Right now in this phase we are engaged with the Turin trial against two defendants, the last two owners of the multinational company Eternit...

After 30 years the extermination continues
My name is Massimiliano Francia and I work for il Giornale di Casale Monferrato {local newspaper} and I have been following the trial from the preliminary phases up until the technical conclusion in that the verdict has not yet been issued and the date established is 13 February. The trial has as defendants the Swiss man Stephan Schmidheiny and the Belgian Jean Louis De Cartier de Marchienne who is of the Belgian nobility. They are accused of ...

18 million does not buy dignity
Oddone Mario, former trader, because by now a pensioner, socialist, former mayor of Casale in the 1980s and currently a politician, not a professional one, but a passionate one. We have intervened as a group. I represent a civic list that is clearly of socialist extraction, “Uniti per Casale” that has had four terms of office in the town council, ...
The Serial Killer
My name is Giuliana Busto, the sister of Piercarlo, a young man who died of pleural mesothelioma at the age of 33. He had never set foot in the factory. No one in our family had ever had anything to do with the factory. When he died we immediately started to get active to ensure that this death was not useless.

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