Overview
- Prosecutor Giovanni Gasparini has opened a negligent-homicide inquiry and assigned the investigation to Spisal and the Carabinieri labor inspectorate.
- Autopsies are pending to determine how toxic fumes in a biological sewage pit at a privately owned villa in Veternigo caused the workers’ asphyxiation.
- Cgil Venezia confirmed that 39-year-old Sayed Abdelwahab Hamad Mahmoud and 21-year-old Saad Abdou Mustafa Ziad were employed off the books without formal contracts.
- The victims wore white coveralls and yellow rubber boots but lacked face and head protection during the cleaning operation commissioned by Paolo Traslochi e Trasporti.
- Unions are calling for mandatory safety training, tighter enforcement and increased oversight to address exploitation in Italy’s shadow economy.