Overview
- The Tribunal of Prato granted Mario Cusimano a full acquittal, stating he did not commit the act, at the close of the first-instance trial.
- He had faced charges of manslaughter and deliberate removal of safety devices, with prosecutor Vincenzo Nitti requesting two years and eight months in prison.
- Company owners Daniele Faggi and Luana Coppini earlier accepted plea deals that yielded suspended sentences of one year and six months and two years.
- A court-appointed expert, engineer Carlo Gini, reported the warping machine’s safety protections were disabled, it was used non‑conformingly at high speed, and D’Orazio died from thoracic compression, with an estimated 8% output uptick that brought no gain because the machine was for sampling.
- Luana D’Orazio’s mother, Emma Marrazzo, denounced the verdict as unjust, and the Prato prosecutor’s office is awaiting the ruling’s motivations to assess a possible appeal.