Rome, 10 Nov. (LaPresse) – The Court of Cassation has ordered a new appeal hearing for Stephan Schmidheiny in the Eternit case and has ruled that the charges relating to the deaths of 25 of the victims are time-barred. The appeal proceedings will concern around sixty other deaths attributed to exposure to asbestos. In its closing speech this morning, the Public Prosecutor’s Office had called for the nine-year-and-six-month sentence to be upheld for the former tycoon, who stands accused of multiple counts of aggravated manslaughter.
Eternit case revisited: the Court of Cassation orders a new appeal trial for Schmidheiny
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Rome, 10 Nov. (LaPresse) – The Court of Cassation has ordered a new appeal hearing for Stephan Schmidheiny in the Eternit case and has ruled that the charges relating to the deaths of 25 of the victims are time-barred. The appeal proceedings will concern around sixty other deaths attributed to exposure to asbestos. In its closing speech this morning, the Public Prosecutor’s Office had called for the nine-year-and-six-month sentence to be upheld for the former tycoon, who stands accused of multiple counts of aggravated manslaughter.
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