Overview
- The Corte di Cassazione ruled on Tuesday that a new appellate trial must be held in the Casale Monferrato Eternit case for roughly 60 victims while declaring that prosecutions for 25 other victims are time‑barred by prescription.
- The court refused the Procura generale’s request to confirm the nine‑year‑and‑six‑month conviction previously issued by the Turin appeal court, leaving the criminal outcome unresolved for many victims.
- The case returned to the Cassazione after an earlier appellate sentence was annulled because it had not been translated into German, a procedural error that forced retrials and further appeals.
- Relatives and Afeva representatives attended the hearing in Rome and protested outside the court, saying the decision prolongs uncertainty and risks more cases lapsing under Italy’s statute of limitations.
- The ruling affects one strand of a long investigation tied to 91 deaths linked to the Casale plant and follows years of fragmented outcomes that have left roughly 300 other alleged victims without criminal redress due to prior acquittals or prescription.